Friedland buys California luxury estate from Ellen DeGeneres for $96 million

The property is located in Carpinteria, near Santa Barbara, a hotbed for celebrity buyers on California’s coast.

Staff Writer | August 15, 2024 | 7:13 am

UK provides $17.3 million to protect Tata Steel’s Port Talbot workers

Workers suspended a planned all-out strike after Britain's biggest steel producer warned that it would bring forward the planned closure of its two blast furnaces at Port Talbot if walkouts went ahead.

Reuters | August 14, 2024 | 5:13 pm

Pilbara Minerals to acquire Latin Resources for $369 million

Latin Resources is focused on the Salinas lithium project in Brazil.

Reuters | August 14, 2024 | 4:04 pm

Kazakhstan weighs commodity export duties to narrow budget gap

Taxes on sulfur, coal and ferroalloys, along with ores and concentrates of copper and iron, are among those that are expected to yield the most revenue.

Bloomberg News | August 14, 2024 | 1:52 pm

Metso signs €200m equipment deal for Barrick’s Reko Diq copper-gold project

The project, jointly owned by Barrick and Pakistan is one of the largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits in the world.

Staff Writer | August 14, 2024 | 1:07 pm

Video: ‘Grade smearing’ the top industry disclosure flaw, Brent Cook says

Retail investors can struggle to make sense of drill results, but some junior mining explorers make things worse with misleading reporting practices that inflate the value of their projects, industry veteran says.

Northern Miner Staff | August 14, 2024 | 1:05 pm