Teck Resources and Freeport-McMoRan led a mining stock rally on Friday as surging oil prices provided relief for their foray into energy before prices tumbled.
AngloGold Ashanti asked Ghana to redeploy troops at its Obuasi mine after an employee died in an attack by hundreds of illegal miners on the facility last week.
Mexico’s biggest copper producer is leveraging its relatively low debt and strong profit margins to invest more than $4.6 billion expanding some of its mines.
Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson stuck with his holding in the biggest exchange-traded product backed by gold, looking past slumping prices for the metal.