Brazil tailings dam spill much smaller than original estimates
BHP Billiton said Friday the dam burst at the Samarco iron ore mine in Brazil released 32m cubic metres of sludge, almost half earlier estimates.
BHP Billiton said Friday the dam burst at the Samarco iron ore mine in Brazil released 32m cubic metres of sludge, almost half earlier estimates.
Prices fell Thursday for a second consecutive session. According to Metal Bulletin, the spot price for benchmark 62% fines dropped by 0.46%, or 20 cents, to $42.91 a tonne.
The massive gem, named the “The Star of Adam”, could sell for up to $175 million.
David Talbot of Dundee Capital Markets forecasts uranium demand growth of about 6% compounded annually through 2020, which ought to be more than enough to kickstart depressed U3O8 prices.
Hopes pinned on Big 4 to exercise their "unprecedented pricing power".
Large-scale gold futures speculators who placed a record number of bearish bets during the final week of 2015, wrong-footed by Monday's safe haven buying.
Canadian merchant bank Aberdeen International (TSX:AAB) has purchased a lithium-potash project in Argentina through a share purchase agreement valued at CAD$5 million.
Broad advance for mining shares as metal prices jump on China stimulus hopes – Freeport rockets 17% in massive volumes.
Beijing has very ambitious 2020 growth targets. A new survey finds Chinese executives are much more confident than the rest of the world about hitting them.
The miner raised the death toll from the catastrophic dam burst at a mine in Brazil last month to 17 from 13 and said there are two people still missing.