Class action against Rio Tinto over Oyu Tolgoi escalates; Taseko wins court battle over Florence copper project; Resolute Mining shares drop 25% on Ghana lease termination

A new report by Roskill says the industry opinion is strongly – and evenly – divided between bearish and bullish views.

It is ironic that aluminum, a metal so central to the green revolution, risks not being able to grow sufficiently because of the pressure to decarbonise.

However, bullion is still heading for its first weekly loss in three.

The proceeds will be used to continue the development of Piedmont’s fully-integrated spodumene-to-hydroxide project in North Carolina.

Wages cannot keep up with how fast the US federal government has been devaluing the dollar, and perhaps the only way to protect against this is to own gold.

Copper prices rose on Friday tracking gains in equities market buoyed by optimism over the global economic recovery on positive US labour data and its faster-than-expected covid-19 vaccination roll-out plans.

Major miners need to increase spending to secure fresh copper supply, analysts say, amid worries that availability of the red metal will slide just as demand surges.