GLENCORE announced on Thursday evening it was in talks with Rio Tinto about a possible merger between the two companies.

NICKEL prices extended losses after Indonesia failed to specify production reductions that had previously sparked a sharp ...

GOLD and silver mining companies secured over $6.2bn through share sales last year, marking the highest capital-raising ...

GLOBAL copper consumption is set to surge 50% by 2040, driven primarily by artificial intelligence and defence sectors, said ...

JUBILEE Metals said it had been paid $10m (R163.5m) from local buyer One Chrome, bringing total proceeds to $25m of the $90m ...

RARE earths, it turns out, are a broad family of elements – 17 in all – any of which sound like the forbidden substance in a science fiction novel. Promethium, for instance. But it’s in actual science ...

SOUTH Africa has loosened antitrust regulations to allow companies in sectors crippled by soaring electricity costs to jointly negotiate cheaper power supplies, a move aimed at preventing industrial ...

SUSPECTED jihadists launched an assault on Mali’s Morila gold mine over the weekend, destroying equipment and temporarily ...

COPPER has extended its powerful rally, breaking through $13,000 per ton for the first time as traders rushed to ship metal ...

GOLD Fields CEO Mike Fraser admits to some frustration in the wake of his company’s capital markets day last year when it ...