Gold price drops to lowest in a month after US retail data surprise Gold shed as much as 3% as an unexpected increase in US retail sales pushed up the dollar. MINING.COM Staff Writer | September 16, 2021 | 9:08 am
US miners decry mineral royalty plan floated in Congress The proposed $3.5 trillion reconciliation spending measure would set an 8% gross royalty on existing mines and 4% on new ones. Reuters | September 16, 2021 | 8:51 am
Iron ore price dives 7% on China’s lower steel output data Mining stocks also slid, with BHP down more than 6% from the previous week, Rio Tinto down 5.3%, and Vale down 7%. MINING.COM Staff Writer | September 16, 2021 | 8:29 am
Copper price falls as China vows to release more metal reserves China has released 420,000 tonnes of the metals in three batches so far this year via public auctions at prices “slightly lower than market." MINING.COM Staff Writer | September 16, 2021 | 7:57 am
Platinum-group prices are being hammered by the chip shortage The shortage of semiconductors is clobbering the price of platinum-group metals as investors brace for a long-lasting hit to car production. Bloomberg News | September 16, 2021 | 7:39 am
Sibanye-Stillwater grabs 50% of Nevada lithium project for $490 million The deal is one of the largest ever in the US lithium market and it t marks Sibanye’s third battery metal investment this year. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 16, 2021 | 6:58 am
Rio Tinto hit with fresh tax bill in Australia The country's tax authority is asking Rio to pay $277m related to a 2015 borrowing used to pay an intragroup dividend. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 16, 2021 | 3:49 am
China’s XTC New Energy plans $1.6bn battery material investment Plant will eventually produce 100,000 tonnes of lithium iron phosphate and 60,000 tonnes of ternary materials annually. Reuters | September 16, 2021 | 3:44 am
New database to help mining companies predict behavior of tailings flows Researches at the University of Waterloo found that catastrophic tailings flows have happened once every two to three years since 1965. MINING.COM Staff Writer | September 16, 2021 | 12:00 am
