Gold price at highest in over two weeks ahead of Powell remarks

Critical knowledge and skills are being lost while the demand for metals and minerals surges.

The overall project-wide contained copper in indicated resources increased by 11% to 2.8 million tonnes.

The partnership would fall under the MINER program funded by the DOE via the Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Global auto sales are worth around $2.5 trillion a year.

Noises produced by mining the seabed could interfere with whales' ability to communicate with one another.

Freeport now expects its Q1 sales to be lower than the previous outlook of 900 million pounds of copper and 300,000 ounces of gold.

All-in sustaining costs (AISC) jumped by a third in the last four quarters at top miners Barrick and Newmont.

A stronger dollar is weighing on gold, with the metal “a little lower just based off that heading into tomorrow morning’s (CPI) number,” says analyst.

It’s far from clear whether a traditionally cautious mining industry will embrace the scale of investment needed to rewire the world.