Benchmark Metals gets injection from Eric Sprott

The waiting game is over. BHP Billiton has named its Perth-based spin-off company, appointing Graham Kerr as its chief executive.

Withdrawals from the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) – currently the best indicator of Chinese wholesale demand – keep up a strong pace.

More than 36% of the jobs in mining and logging stay open for longer than three months.

Gold and silver price holds up well in the face of Friday's blowout jobs report, jump in stocks and bond yields and renewed slide in oil.

It was not at the end of any rainbow, but two Canadian firms did find their own pot of gold and are turning Northern Ireland in a new mining frontier.

While China is struggling with its gross domestic product (GDP) growth metrics, the country’s main stock market—the Shanghai Composite Index (SCI)—is easily outperforming the S&P 500 and NASDAQ.

Physical buyers numbering millions are setting up a sustainable long-term gold price upswing in the face of a small group of speculators.

China’s central bank circulated a draft plan to ease restrictions on gold imports, said people with knowledge of the matter, in a move that may lead to lower prices in the world’s biggest market for bullion.

Walsh emphasized Rio was not planning any major acquisition to protect itself from a potential takeover by the commodity trader and miner rival.