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• Gold Is Still Cheap Compared To Stocks

  Published 24 January 2020 | viewed 4,317 times

  The gold price was drifting sideways on Thursday, down some $50 an ounce from a brief (but glorious) near seven-year intraday high above $1,600 an ounce a…

• Gold Major Looks To Hike Dividends By 79%

  Published 07 January 2020 | viewed 2,471 times

  Newmont (NYSE: NEM) (TSX: NGT), the world’s No. 1 gold miner, said on Monday it would bump its annual dividend up 79%, effective in the first quarter…

• Australian Billionaire To Invest In $88 Million Struggling Solar Project

  Published 06 December 2019 | viewed 8,663 times

  Australian mining billionaire and philanthropist Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest is said to have come to the rescue of a massive and troubled solar farm in Western…

• Canada Looks To Become A Major Source For Critical Minerals

  Published 05 December 2019 | viewed 3,862 times

  Natural Resources Canada would hire a British firm to provide 10-year market forecasts for nearly two dozen vital minerals used in products like electric car…

• Low Prices Plague Beleaguered Lithium Miners

  Published 21 November 2019 | viewed 2,474 times

  Chile’s Chemical and Mining Society (SQM), the world’s second-largest lithium producer, continues to suffer from sustained weak prices and demand for the metal used in…

• Mining Boom Sparks Deforestation Concerns

  Published 19 November 2019 | viewed 4,817 times

  Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon has hit the highest annual level in over a decade this year, amid President Jair Bolsonaro’s push to open the huge rainforest…

• World's Largest Gold Miner Sees Profits Triple

  Published 06 November 2019 | viewed 4,197 times

  Canada’s Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD), the world’s second largest producer of the yellow metal, saw its profit for the three months to September almost tripled as a result…

• The Green New Deal Is Great News For Miners

  Published 31 October 2019 | viewed 9,524 times

  Leftwing darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed Green New Deal, despite its flimsy 14 pages total, is nothing if not all-encompassing and vaulting in its ambition. The…

• The Dying Coal Industry Claims Another Victim

  Published 29 October 2019 | viewed 3,703 times

  Murray Energy, the US largest privately owned coal producer led by outspoken Donald Trump’s ally Robert Murray, has filed for chapter 11 protection, as the fossil…

• Rio Tinto Vies To Become Top U.S. Lithium Producer

  Published 22 October 2019 | viewed 3,707 times

  Rio Tinto, (ASX, LON:RIO), the world’s No. 2 miner, may become the largest lithium producer in the United States if a pilot project that is kicking…

• Private Investors Turn Back On Mining

  Published 21 October 2019 | viewed 2,716 times

  Private capital tracker Preqin in a third quarter update outlines “escalated investors’ concerns” for natural resource investment with “geopolitical pressure dictating much of the momentum” in the…

• The Mining Industry Still Has a Human Rights Problem

  Published 14 October 2019 | viewed 8,871 times

  Nine years after the implementation of a law requiring publicly traded companies to ensure their raw materials don’t come from mines that use child labour…

• Blockchain Firm Pushes For Ethical Mining

  Published 11 October 2019 | viewed 2,442 times

  Two companies have joined forces with the idea of helping tech companies that make use of minerals guarantee the ethical sourcing of such elements and…

• World's Largest Miner Doubles Down On Renewables

  Published 09 October 2019 | viewed 2,785 times

  BHP (ASX, NYSE:BHP), the world’s largest miner, is stepping up efforts to reassure investors that the company is committed not only to protecting the environment, but…

• Opportunity Arises In The Democratic Republic Of Congo

  Published 07 October 2019 | viewed 6,011 times

  In this special edition, MINING.com partnered with Global Business Reports to spotlight the opportunities and challenges of mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). From GBR:…

• Copper Miners Feel The Squeeze As Prices Slip Once Again

  Published 04 October 2019 | viewed 3,836 times

  The price of copper weakened again on Thursday amid the worst US factory conditions in a decade and near-record bearish bets on futures markets on the bellwether…

• Scientists Want To Turn Asteroids Into Gas Stations

  Published 02 October 2019 | viewed 2,499 times

  Scientists planning to start mining the moon as early as 2025 may soon shift their attention to other celestial bodies as a new study suggests that there are about 1,000…

• Is China's Mining Dominance Coming To An End?

  Published 30 September 2019 | viewed 2,873 times

  The US government is stepping up efforts to break China’s dominance over supplies of critical minerals for a range of modern life’s aspects, including electric…

• Miners Face Looming Water Crisis

  Published 26 September 2019 | viewed 4,112 times

  Stricter environmental regulations and changing climate patterns resulting in the worst droughts in more than half a century, have multiplied the mining industry’s challenges to…

• Global Copper Output Is Falling

  Published 25 September 2019 | viewed 2,827 times

  Global mined copper output dropped in the first six months of the year by 1.4% to nearly 9.92 million tonnes, mainly due to weather disruptions in…