South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti said it was fully supporting its JV partner Randgold Resources, as several miners operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo negotiate with the government terms of the country's new mining code.Congo President Joseph Kabila will soon sign into law a new mining code, the government and the country's mining companies said on Wednesday. The code has been vigorously...Read More

Bitcoin's Tokyo Whale revealed on Wednesday that he has sold off about $400 million in bitcoin and bitcoin cash since late last year...Read full newsRead More

Ghana, one of the world's biggest producers of cocoa beans, is facing a crisis around dangerous and dirty galamsey, or informal, mining-which experts warn could derail its agriculture sector.Read full newsRead More

Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila will soon sign into law a new mining code, the government and the country's mining companies said on Wednesday. The code has been vigorously opposed by the miners.Read full newsRead More

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South Africa's mining industry and the government are moving closer to resolving a dispute over levels of black ownership that's deterred investment and dragged down growth in the continent's most industrialized economy.Read full newsRead More

Career changes are common, but what's not is going from managing $40 billion in assets as a London fund manager to running your own farms. But that's exactly what Graham Birch, a former BlackRock investment leader, did.Read full newsRead More

Ghana, one of the world's biggest producers of cocoa beans, is facing a crisis around dangerous and dirty galamsey, or informal, mining-which experts warn could derail its agriculture sector.Read full newsRead More

Algold Resources Ltd. (TSXV:ALG) is pleased to announce the granting of a total of 300,000 stock options to Lucas Werner Claessens and Brahim Ahmed Salem Ghadda, each of whom joined its board of directors on February 6, 2018.Read full newsRead More

Kai Hoffmann, the CEO of North America's leading provider of relevant financing information in the junior commodities space, Oreninc.com talks about the rece...Read full newsRead More

Dr Kal Kotecha of Junior Gold Report spoke to INN at PDAC 2018 about his publication and future of gold stocks. ____________________________________________...Read full newsRead More

The Democratic Republic of Congo imminent law that more than double the tax miners operating in the country pay on exports of cobalt, will severely affect buyers of the metal, a key component in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric cars and mobile phones."Given the tight nature of the cobalt market at present, we would expect miners to attempt to pass through higher royalty costs to c...Read More

(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters)LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) - China's Ministry of Finance made some minor but significant tweaks to its nickel import tariffs at the start of this year.The import duty on melting-grade nickel cathode was doubled from 1 percent to 2 percent, while that on nickel sulphate was cut from 5.5 percent to 2 percent.Why the differe...Read More

(Bloomberg) - Ghana's largest mineworkers' union plans protests and strikes throughout operations in the country if the government allows Gold Fields Ltd.'s local unit to dismiss more than 2,000 staff as it starts the process of hiring a contractor to operate its biggest mine in the West African nation.Gold Fields is committing "acts of corporate greed aimed at amassing huge profits at the expens...Read More

Researchers from Arizona State University have developed a new method to produce lithium-metal batteries that allows for a controlled dendrite growth, which makes them safer and longer-lasting.The team found that using a 3-D layer of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), or silicone, as the substrate of the lithium metal anode can mitigate the formation of dendrites, which are needle-like growths that app...Read More

Shares in Zanaga Iron Ore Company (LON:ZIOC) dropped 15% in London on Thursday after the company detailed its change of focus to a small-scale early production operation at its flagship Republic of Congo project.AIM-listed Zanaga, worth $50m after today's pullback, announced a $1.5m agreement with Glencore (LON:GLEN) for a 2018 work program on the early production project at the property located c...Read More

6 March 2018 - The revival of resource nationalism policies tend to correlate with commodity prices - increasing during both commodity supercycles and commodity downturns. According to market cycle theory, commodity supercycles prompt an increase in state intervention as governments seek to increase their share of revenue from rising commodity prices. Likewise, during periods of depressed prices...Read More

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk took to Twitter on Thursday to call on U.S. President Donald Trump to challenge Chinese auto trade rules.In a series of tweets aimed at the president, Musk said he was "against import duties in general, but the current rules make things very difficult. It's like competing in an Olympic race wearing lead shoes."Tesla "raised this with the prior administration and...Read More

Smart glass windows made with vanadium are capable of saving more energy by stopping thermal radiation from escaping and, thus, preventing heat loss during the winter, and by avoiding infrared radiation from the sun from entering the building during the summer.This is according to a compilation of studies made public today by VanadiumCorp Resource (TSX-V:VRB). The Vancouver-based company owns 100%...Read More