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Gold surged to a record high above $5 000 an ounce on Monday, extending a historic rally as investors piled into the safe-haven asset amid rising geopolitical uncertainties. Spot gold rose 1.79%...
Silver prices vaulted above $100 an ounce on Friday, extending a remarkable 2025 surge into the new year as retail investor and momentum-driven buying added to a prolonged spell of tightness in...
Investors are showing strong interest in platinum and online platinum investment is on the rise, Gold Avenue CEO Nicolas Cracco reports. Constrained supply and sensitivity to economic trends make...
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roduction at Capstone Copper's Mantoverde copper and gold mine in northern Chile is largely halted after the mine's desalination plant was shut down amid a nearly three-week labor strike, the...
Copper miner Freeport-McMoRan reported a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit on Thursday, as higher copper and gold prices offset a production drop after an accident at Indonesia's Grasberg...
Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed South32 is targeting the copper-dominant Arctic project in the Ambler mining district of north-western Alaska with its Canada-based 50:50 joint venture (JV)...
Goldman Sachs has raised its end-2026 gold price forecast to $5 400/oz from $4 900/oz earlier, noting private-sector and emerging market central banks' diversification into gold. Spot gold climbed...
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After successfully closing a $150-million seven-year convertible senior note offering, gold miner Caledonia Mining Corporation says it will start ordering long lead-time equipment for the Bilboes...
Vale’s base metals unit wants to eventually produce one-million tons of copper by developing existing assets, exceeding an output target for 2035. Major mining firms such as Anglo American and Rio...
Canadian major Teck Resources has reported 2025 yearly copper production of 453 500 t, in line with previously disclosed guidance, supported by strong operational performance across its portfolio...
In an announcement to Mining Weekly from Brussels on Tuesday January 20, South Africa’s Simon Baloyi, the CEO of Sasol, and South Africa's Craig Miller, the CEO of Valterra Platinum, featured...
Spot gold surged past the psychological milestone of $4 800/oz on Wednesday for the first time, as safe-haven demand kept bullion a favored asset.
Diversified miner Rio Tinto reported robust production results for 2025, highlighted by an 8% year-on-year increase in copper-equivalent output. The strong performance was driven by the company’s...
TSX-listed Montage Gold is making rapid construction progress at its 90%-owned Koné project, in Côte d’Ivoire, with the first gold pour through the oxide circuit expected late in the fourth quarter...
Ferrochrome output from the Glencore-Merafe Chrome Venture was 63% lower in 2025 than in 2024, Merafe Resources reported on Tuesday, January 20. Attributable production fell from 301 000 t in 2024...
London-listed mining services provider Capital says it delivered a strong finish to the year ended December 31, 2025, with full-year revenue having been at the upper end of revised and raised...
TSX-V- and JSE-listed tin miner Alphamin Resources has reported a 25% year-on-year increase in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation to $341-million for the year ended...
Mining major BHP has lifted its 2026 copper production guidance after delivering record operating performances across its copper and iron-ore assets in the half year ended December 31, capitalising...
Spot gold prices reached a high of $4 666/oz on January 19, compared with an average price of $4 590/oz last week, while silver hit a fresh intraday record of $93/oz on January 15, mostly owing to...
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BHP was on Monday refused permission to appeal against a ruling that it is liable for the 2015 collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil, in a London lawsuit potentially worth tens of billions of...
Bolivia’s centrist government will respect all existing hydrocarbons and lithium agreements as part of a push to rebuild investor confidence after years of instability, the country’s energy...
Global gold and copper producer Barrick Mining Corporation has chosen to use end-to-end mining solutions company Metso’s Concorde Cell flotation technology at its Lumwana expansion project, in...
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ASX- and TSX-listed Perseus Mining has confirmed the death of a second employee following an offsite vehicle accident, near its Bagoé gold mine, in Côte d’Ivoire, on January 15. The employee had...
Midtier precious metals producer Endeavour Silver has set a guidance of 14.6-million to 15.6-million silver-equivalent ounces for 2026. The guidance comprises 8.3-million to 8.9-million ounces of...
Iron-ore futures drifted lower on Friday as high prices and slim margins deterred buying in the biggest consumer China, with the Dalian iron-ore contract reporting a weekly decline for the first...
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