How Olympic Dam went from mother of all digs to debottlenecking The final chapter on the world's most ambitious – and costly – mining project has closed. Frik Els | October 29, 2020 | 5:33 pm
No punishment 5 years after the Fundão dam tragedy Brazilian prosecutors have filed a new lawsuit contesting a compensation package for victims from a 2015 collapsed dam jointly owned by BHP and Vale. Bruno Venditti | October 29, 2020 | 4:52 pm
Gold price to climb regardless of election result, analysts say A "fragile" US economy and ongoing central bank "money printing" will lift gold prices, analysts say. MINING.com Editor | October 29, 2020 | 12:29 pm
NASA finds rare metal asteroid worth more than global economy The heavy-metal object, called “16 Psyche”, is worth $10,000 quadrillion. That's 70,000 times the world's economy. Cecilia Jamasmie | October 29, 2020 | 11:43 am
Investors worth $10.2 trillion press global miners for indigenous engagement talks A group of investors has written to the boards of 78 mining companies to seek assurances about how they gain their social licence to operate. Reuters | October 29, 2020 | 11:03 am
Gold quarterly demand plummets to 11-year low Global demand fell 19% year-on-year to its lowest quarterly total since 2009. MINING.com Editor | October 29, 2020 | 10:40 am
BMO emerges as top mining M&A advisor for Q1–Q3 The firm advised on a total of 12 deals worth $4 billion for the first three quarters of the year. MINING.com Editor | October 29, 2020 | 9:51 am
Sibanye-Stillwater posts record Q3 profit on higher metals prices Group EBITDA soared 182% to $922 million in the quarter ended September, compared with a year earlier. Reuters | October 29, 2020 | 9:15 am
Election will decide fate of Alaska mine, electric cars Oil drilling in the Arctic and the Pebble gold mine in Alaska aren’t actually on the ballot -- but they might as well be. Bloomberg News | October 29, 2020 | 9:01 am