Venezuelan government defends Mining Arc, environmentalists say it’s not working Very few of the 150 companies who expressed interest in investing in the Mining Arc actually presented concrete offers. Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | February 26, 2018 | 5:41 pm
Miners report some infrastructure damage after Papua quake Barrick Gold Corp said a power station that supplies its Porgera gold mine had been damaged, while Ok Tedi Mining Ltd said a landslip had blocked a road and damaged pipelines to its copper and gold mine in the Star Mountains. Reuters | February 26, 2018 | 4:32 pm
BHP’s productivity gains are cheered by investors — and unions BHP has said it expects to deliver $2 billion of net productivity gains by the end of the 2019 financial year. Bloomberg News | February 26, 2018 | 11:25 am
Freeport says no plans to sell Congo cobalt asset as buyers circle Freeport is looking at other options for the asset, including possibly a joint venture to develop the large cobalt project. Reuters | February 26, 2018 | 9:28 am
Shipping gauge shows iron ore, copper prices heading for fall CHART: Baltic Dry Index has plummeted 32% since December, opening up huge gap to closely correlated industrial metal prices. Frik Els | February 26, 2018 | 2:03 am
Nickel-copper-cobalt find vaults Vancouver junior to top of TSX-V ranking Garibaldi Resources beats out tech, energy, life sciences firms for Toronto market's annual crown with 2,351% market cap gain and 150m shares traded. Frik Els | February 25, 2018 | 12:39 pm
Galician MP denounces tailings pond breach Lídia Senra filed a complaint before the European Commission denouncing the breach of a tailings pond in the Touro municipality. Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | February 23, 2018 | 6:37 pm
German scientists to build machine that speeds up urban mining processes Some urban mining already takes place in the EU but it involves melting devices together in a furnace and removing the most valuable metals. Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | February 23, 2018 | 4:53 pm
This guy got rich on Congo mines until bribe probe put future on hold A 20-year friendship that helped turn Dan Gertler into a billionaire has left the Israeli businessman with a lot fewer places to go. Bloomberg News | February 23, 2018 | 7:32 am