Junior financing evaporates as cobalt, lithium prices slump Equity capital raised by lithium and cobalt explorers and developers down 95% in Q2 compared to last year. | August 28, 2019 | 3:29 pm
Silver scramble erupts on gold gains as investors play catch-up Silver has surged 12% this month and touched a two-year high on Wednesday. Bloomberg News | August 28, 2019 | 12:19 pm
De Beers gem sales keep falling as buyers allowed to say no De Beers sold just $280 million of diamonds this month, 44% less than a year earlier. Bloomberg News | August 28, 2019 | 11:05 am
Pacton Gold obtains drilling permit for Red Lake Pacton will begin a 10,000-meter drilling program this fall. Jackson Chen | August 28, 2019 | 10:39 am
Amazon gold and army suspicion fuel Bolsonaro’s rainforest rage Bolsonaro's father was among the wildcat miners who descended on the Amazonian gold mine of Serra Pelada in the 1980s. Bloomberg News | August 28, 2019 | 9:58 am
Fake-branded bars slip dirty gold into world markets Gold bars fraudulently stamped with the logos of major refineries are in the global market to launder smuggled or illegal gold. Reuters | August 28, 2019 | 9:34 am
Scotland’s first commercial gold mine to open in early 2020 Access to ore is still expected by December and the company plans to stockpile ore in the period leading to the beginning of operations. Cecilia Jamasmie | August 28, 2019 | 9:32 am
Glencore awarded just $19m by tribunal in Colombia lawsuit A World Bank tribunal has ordered Colombia to repay a $19 million fine it levied on Glencore's coal mining subsidiary Prodeco. Reuters | August 28, 2019 | 9:10 am
Excelsior to deliver first copper production from Arizona by year-end The Gunnison project in Arizona is more than 90% finished. MINING.COM Staff Writer | August 28, 2019 | 6:20 am