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The Chinese scramble to mine Africa

25-fold investment jump in less than a decade. That's how fast China's gaining control over Africa’s mining industry. And Beijing's only pushing harder now.

Vladimir Basov | December 15, 2015 | 1:55 pm

Market uncertainty pulls Canadian Mining Eye index down in Q3

The Canadian Mining Eye index declined 17% during Q3 2015, compared to a 4% gain in Q2 2015.

EY | December 15, 2015 | 12:14 am

Stock sell-off puts mining sector’s future in question

Ultimately the widespread selling is evidence of investors’ revulsion for a sector that has struggled with falling prices for four years and has demonstrated no clear schedule for a recovery.

Globe and Mail | December 14, 2015 | 12:35 am

Falling Chinese steel demand means more bad news for iron ore

The pain for iron ore producers is not expected to let up anytime soon, as numbers out of China indicate that steel demand is dropping.

Andrew Topf | December 13, 2015 | 4:04 pm

Bloom Lake finds a buyer in Champion Iron

Nearly a year after going bust, the troubled Bloom Lake Mine in Eastern Canada has a new owner.

Andrew Topf | December 13, 2015 | 2:24 pm

Some think not too soon for Anglo obituary

Anglo-American perceived as "the most likely of the diversified mining majors to go bust" even if it "goes down fighting".

Frik Els | December 11, 2015 | 11:44 am

World’s first seafloor miner inks copper sales deal with Chinese customer

The new agreement replaces a previous three-year contract that would have seen Nautilus supplying 1.1 million tonnes of unrefined copper ore to Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 11, 2015 | 6:17 am

Western Australia Iron Ore Overcoming Productivity Challenges

Immersive Technologies has released details on improvements their customers are achieving in Western Australia. Among the results reported are improvements in cycle times, production, time between machine failure and savings in training time.

Immersive Technologies | December 9, 2015 | 9:25 am

In January this guy launches a hedge fund to invest in metals

Orion's Oskar Lewnowski: "For a long time, metals were driven by financial flows... With those guys out, we are back to fundamentals."

Frik Els | December 8, 2015 | 3:58 pm

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