March 25, 2015 This Easter bunny has diamond eyes. Oh, yes, and it costs $49K It took a world-renowned master chocolatier, cocoa from Tanzania, two solitaire diamonds and some gold to create this extravagant and expensive chocolate Easter bunny.
March 24, 2015 Rio Tinto, Alcoa step aside for Australia’s largest national park They'll hand back more than 175,000 hectares of prime conservation land they have held since 1971 to West Australia, ditching plans to build a bauxite mine and an alumina refinery…
March 24, 2015 Belaruskali deal with China dents other players’ chances The move may be the first of many more competitive deals by producers in the potash market, which has historically operated with large joint ventures controlling prices.
March 24, 2015 Here is what it looks like when mining trucks drive across frozen lakes In the farthest reaches of northwestern Canada, there are few people and fewer roads. When winter comes, fuel, explosives, and heavy equipment move north in an unusual way: via trucks…
March 24, 2015 Freeport axes dividend by 84% amid weak commodity prices The copper and gold miner will pay a dividend of 5 cents.
March 24, 2015 Mining for copper just got a lot cheaper A new study shows the costs of mining for the red metal have steadily declined over the past three years.
March 23, 2015 Chile’s court says Barrick’s Pascua-Lama has not damaged glaciers The country's Environmental Court handed Monday a major victory to Barrick’s besieged Pascua-Lama gold, copper and silver project, straddling the border with Argentina.
March 23, 2015 Gold climbs on weaker dollar, rate outlook Gold prices were up for the fourth straight session on Monday, hitting a fresh two-week high.
March 23, 2015 Scientists claim gold in human excrement is worth millions They have given the expression "where there's muck there's brass" a whole new meaning.
March 23, 2015 Zijin Mining buys 10% of Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines Zijn's main interest in Ivanhoe seems to be the Kamoa copper project.
Silver price whipsaws again as thin liquidity fuels wild swings Spot silver was up more than 7% to about $76 an ounce by mid-morning in New York on Friday, having earlier tumbled toward $64. February 06, 2026 | 01:23 pm