Marathon Gold secures $20m financing for Valentine exploration

Somasundaram PR, Managing Director of the World Gold Council India, peels back the underlying weakness of India’s gold trade in an interview with MINING.com.

Forget iron ore for now, the world’s largest mining company is making a bold bet on copper.

“Anybody who says that the super-cycle is over is an idiot, it’s just been deferred for a little bit”, mining tycoon Robert Friedland told a packed audience in London last week.

Disgraced Brazilian tycoon once held 90% of power utility worth $3.2 billion just three years ago.

Hollywood mogul has already attracted investment from miners to film industry's biggest scandal.

President Otto Perez Molina has approved a new rule passed by the Congress last week, which rises taxes to transnational miners operating in the country from 1% to 10%.

Steven Hochberg, chief market analyst at Elliott Wave International, uses the Wave Principle to predict the movements of commodities and the stock market based on a number of factors, including sentiment.

The miner has set out changes to the chairman's role and, as part of its on-going cost cutting program, is further cutting board pay.

To a packed crowd in Vancouver yesterday, veteran junior resource analyst John Kaiser gave a presentation hosted by AME BC entitled, Confronting the Potential Extinction of a Canadian Institution.