Australia’s mining, equipment, technology, and services (METS) sector will soon have the opportunity to help develop space exploration alongside NASA. Leading METS industry association Austmine and Australian Remote Operations for Space and Earth (AROSE), a...
Gold touched a fresh record as Israel prepared for a strike by Iran or its proxies, and traders mulled the latest US economic data. Bullion climbed as much as 1% to $2 395.48 in early Asia hours. Israel is preparing for an assault in the next two days, in retaliation...
Alaska sued the US Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday seeking to overturn an agency decision that it said effectively blocked development of one of the world’s largest copper and gold deposits. The complaint filed in an Anchorage federal court challenges the...
Copper production in Chile rose 9.8% on an annual basis to 417 000 t in February even as state-run Codelco’s output dipped, the country’s copper commission Cochilco said on Thursday. Despite the overall rise, production at Chile’s...
Rio Tinto and its partners have locked in $US15 billion ($22.94 billion) in funding for the Simandou iron ore project in West Africa. The Simandou mountain range covers more than 100km in the south-east of the Republic of Guinea. The Guinea Government confirmed...
Perseus Mining has confirmed the off-market takeover bid it made for all the current and soon-to-be issued ordinary shares in OreCorp is unconditional and best and final. Silvercorp Metals’ proposed takeover bid for OreCorp lapsed in late March, clearing the...
