Indonesia bans coal exports in January on domestic power worries The Southeast Asian country is the world's biggest exporter of thermal coal. Reuters | January 2, 2022 | 9:09 am
Top 20 mining stories of 2021 Another record-setting year for the metals and mining industry and for MINING.COM. MINING.com Editor | December 31, 2021 | 12:21 pm
Brazil secures $21m in mining land auction This was the fifth round of a larger tender process and it involved a total of 4,500 tenements of which 1,123 were purchased in the public offering stage. MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 31, 2021 | 11:42 am
Gold’s turn to shine The leading alternative asset’s secular bull is set to resume with a vengeance in 2022 and beyond. Adam Hamilton - Zeal Intelligence | December 31, 2021 | 11:01 am
Copper price rises as China’s factory activity accelerates China's factory activity unexpectedly accelerated in December, according to an official survey released on Friday. MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 31, 2021 | 10:29 am
Copper think tank signals how Chile’s new Constitution can boost the mining sector The Centre for Copper and Mining Studies believes Chile’s mining sector needs a new purpose that goes beyond increasing production. Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | December 31, 2021 | 10:07 am
Gold price set for worst year since 2015 Gold is poised to end 2021 the same way it spent much of the year. MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 31, 2021 | 9:14 am
Colombia’s third-quarter coal output grows 18.7% The Andean country produced 12.9 million tonnes of coal in the three months ended Sept. 30. Reuters | December 31, 2021 | 8:22 am
Chile’s copper production down 1.6% in November On the other hand, Chiles's manufacturing output jumped 5% in November compared with the same month last year. Reuters | December 31, 2021 | 8:10 am