Yamana and Orion sell royalties and streams to newly launched Nomad

If the miner buys any assets this year, it would be Rio's first acquisition in about three years.

Today's results are the lowest earnings Vale has reported in six years and its third straight quarterly loss.

Iron ore price falls 4% on Wednesday as oversupply, Chinese steel fears return.

But the miner revised down its 2015 U.S. iron ore sales and production volume estimate to 20.5 million tons, from its previous guidance for 22 million tons

Using advanced photonics, Dr Agneszka Zuber and Associate Professor Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem's method can find gold nanoparticules at detection limits a hundred times lower than current methods such as X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and X-ray Fluorescence (XRF).

As much as three quarters of investors voted in favour of a non-binding motion to change the way the gold giant compensates its executives.

Analysts are not sure what to make of El Salvador’s recent move that saw its central bank sell about 80% percent of its gold reserves last month.

Chinese companies, private equity firms including Mick Davis’s X2 Resources, and even Teck Resources are rumoured to be among the potential buyers.

Prices for the steel-making material added Monday US$1.28 or 2.17% to US$59.09 a tonne, taking its gain since bottoming on April 2 to 25%.