Barrick cuts 2020 guidance, faces $191m bill in PNG

Gold purchases during the all important festival season set to be lowest since 2007, as two years of drought erode rural Indian's buying power.

The company said it would announce a final decision on the matter early next year.

While the law lets citizens mine, sell and own riches mined in space, it does not grant sovereignty, ownership, exclusive rights or jurisdiction over any celestial body.

The emeralds and rubies miner raised $19.2 million from its recent auction in Jaipur, India.

Exports suspended for nearly two months over building of smelter.

The EIA says China and India are to blame, as imports from both nations — which from 2008 to 2013 accounted for 98% of the increase in world coal trade —are on their way down.

The deaths of the alleged "terrorists" took place over a 56-day operation by security forces, the Chinese government said.

Indian households sit on 20,000 tonnes and the Modi government's two-week old scheme to bring gold into the financial system looks like a spectacular flop.

The Baltic Dry Index which tracks bulk shipping rates on more than 50 routes around the world drops to lowest since 1985.