Vedanta profit plummets 41% on soft metal pricesPrices of zinc, aluminum have fallen from their peaks by over 15% in 2022 from a year earlier.Reuters | January 27, 2023 | 7:55 am
Production halted in unit of Venezuela’s second-largest refineryPDVSA has in recent months made efforts to increase its…Reuters | January 25, 2023 | 7:56 am
Goldman sees ‘bullish concoction’ for global commoditiesJeff Currie sees parallels with the record run-up in commodities…Bloomberg News | January 16, 2023 | 11:59 am
Researchers develop ICP-coring system for deep mining A new coring system has the potential to obtain and test "living" samples from the deep earth. MINING.COM Staff Writer | February 10, 2022 | 6:06 am
The commodity gauges that underpin Goldman’s uber-bullish view There are more commodities futures contracts trading in backwardation than at any point since at least 1997. Bloomberg News | February 8, 2022 | 12:46 pm
Goldman commodity veteran says he’s never seen a market like it "We’re out of everything – I don’t care if it’s oil, gas, coal, copper, aluminum, you name it we’re out of it,” says Jeff Currie. Bloomberg News | February 7, 2022 | 6:49 am
Information batteries: the latest proposal to dethrone lithium-ion batteries “Information batteries” store surplus renewable energy as computation. MINING.COM Staff Writer | February 4, 2022 | 6:06 am
First Helium licenses second exploration well at Worsley in Alberta The company expects to begin drilling operations in mid-February. MINING.com Editor | February 1, 2022 | 1:35 pm
Energy transition saw record investment in 2021 — report BloombergNEF reports that global investment in the energy transition totalled $755 billion in 2021. MINING.COM Staff Writer | January 30, 2022 | 10:21 am
McKinsey pegs the price tag of a livable climate at $9.2 trillion a year That’s at least $3.5 trillion more a year than the world is currently laying out for both low-carbon and fossil-fuel infrastructure. Bloomberg News | January 25, 2022 | 7:42 am
Commodities to veer between China hopes, pandemic fears If 2021 was a year of volatility and uneven performances for commodities, then 2022 is shaping up as a rinse and repeat as uncertainty over the pandemic recovery remains the dominant theme, writes Clyde Russell. Reuters | January 21, 2022 | 8:26 am
Canada’s energy patch sees ‘significant’ boost in investment Investment in Canadian oil sands, the world’s third largest oil reserves, will jump by a third to C$11.6 billion this year. Bloomberg News | January 20, 2022 | 1:04 pm