Wheaton Precious Metals, Cobalt 27 acquire cobalt stream from Vale for US$690M

The firm is developing a trio of staggeringly huge copper deposits on the Chilean-Argentine border that contain a total of over 28 billion pounds of copper and 19 million ounces of gold resources (only two of the deposits have resource estimates on them).

Broker Autilla Ltd (Sapient), the Chicago Mercantile Exchange jointly with Thomson Reuters, U.S. derivatives bourse Intercontinental Exchange, the London Metal Exchange and broker ICAP's online platform EBS will present their proposals this Friday.

The country is fine-tuning details of a new mining law that will make it easier for foreigners to tap the nation’s riches.

After a prolonged period of low volatility as funds invested in ever-greater risk, markets have snapped and volatility has jumped.

In response to popular demand from our home province of British Columbia, today we visualize the amount of natural resources extracted from BC each year.

The country’s environmental authority criticized the Top Court decision saying the miner conducted proper consultation with local indigenous groups and shouldn’t have to do it again.

The LME says its electronic solution for the platinum and palladium price — LMEbullion — could benefit gold bugs.

It looks like the late 90’s are back in vogue in the mining industry.

The drop was mainly due to reduced shipments from Codelco and Collahuasi, official figures show.