Gold surges past $4,500 as Treasury buyback plan rattles bond markets and fuels safe-haven demand
Gold surged past $4,500 on August 19, 2026 after the US Treasury expanded long-term debt buybacks, drawing safe-haven fl...
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Silver pushes to multi-month highs on weaker US dollar as bullion complex rallies
Silver rose on August 21, 2026 alongside gold as a weaker US dollar and falling Treasury yields lifted bullion demand, w...
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Coal India to open first overseas trading office in Singapore to pursue iron ore and critical minerals
Coal India is setting up its first overseas trading office in Singapore to trade iron ore and critical minerals and to p...
Great Western Mining begins drilling at Nevada's Defender Tungsten Project
Great Western Mining Corporation has started a minimum 7,000-foot drill programme at its Defender Tungsten Project in Mi...
Silver rebounds after sharp pullback as Treasury move weakens dollar, with rate-cut expectations in focus
Silver slipped to $63.94 on Aug. 18, then jumped to $65.64 on Aug. 19 after U.S. Treasury bond-buyback news pushed yield...
Saudi Aramco Resumes Strait of Hormuz Loadings as Alternative Routes Multiply
Saudi Aramco restarted crude loadings inside the Strait of Hormuz in mid-August after halting sales for weeks, as Gulf p...
Silver Holds Steady as Inflation and Geopolitical Risks Anchor Trading; Delhi Rates Rise ₹730
Silver held near $65.08 an ounce globally on Aug 18, 2026, while Delhi retail rates rose ₹730 to ₹2,40,730/kg, as invest...
Tusker Minerals to sell Malawi subsidiary holding Machinga rare earth project to AuKing Mining for up to $4.85 million
AuKing Mining will acquire Tusker Minerals' Malawi unit GEL for up to $4.
NMDC Shares Slide After Q1 Results Disappoint, Citi Cuts Target Price
NMDC shares fell around 4% after Q1 FY27 results showed softer margins despite 26% higher iron ore production, prompting...
NMDC Posts Record 53.15 MT Iron Ore Output, Targets 100 MT by 2030
NMDC Chairman Amitava Mukherjee announced record 53.15 MT iron ore output in FY26 and set targets of 60 MT for FY27 and ...
Sigma Lithium posts record Q2 revenue but EPS misses as Minas Gerais dispute halts operations
Sigma Lithium reported record Q2 revenue of $54.7M but missed EPS estimates, and temporarily suspended operations amid n...
Gold rally extends across regional markets as North American investors remain on the sidelines
Gold rose for a seventh session in India and topped $4,400 an ounce globally on August 13, 2026, with ETFs drawing $3 bi...
Oil prices climb on Hormuz shipping attacks as IEA cuts 2026 supply forecast
Oil futures rose on Aug. 12 after attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb, while the IEA cut its 2026...
Blue Moon Metals to acquire 33 U.S. tungsten and antimony projects for US$20.5 million
Blue Moon Metals agreed to buy 33 western U.S. tungsten and antimony projects from a private vendor for about US$20.5 mi...
Silver extends multi-month rally into mid-August as sterling and dollar quotes both gain
Silver's spot price rose on August 11, 2026, climbing to $64.
Mixed analyst takes on USA Rare Earth as William Blair maintains Buy rating
William Blair maintained a Buy rating on USA Rare Earth while Simply Wall St flagged valuation gaps tied to CHIPS Act fu...
Gold trades below January peak as Middle East conflict and bond yields pressure prices
Gold traded near $4,334 per ounce on Aug. 10, 2026, over $1,000 below its January record, as analysts cited Middle East ...
Guinea signs bauxite mining deal with Nimba Mining, Glencore USD 350 million advance confirmed
Guinea has signed a mining convention with state-owned Nimba Mining to restart the former GAC bauxite project, with Glen...
Congo bans copper and cobalt concentrate exports under June 29 ministerial order
The Democratic Republic of Congo has banned exports of copper and cobalt concentrates under a June 29 joint ministerial ...
Gold Holds Above $4,050 as US Dollar Weakens and Fed Bets Shift Ahead of Key US Jobs Data
Spot gold held above $4,050 on August 4 as a softer US dollar offset oil-driven inflation concerns, with traders awaitin...
Cove Kaz Capital Group Taps Global Engineering Consortium for Kazakhstan Tungsten Feasibility Study
Cove Kaz Capital Group has engaged DRA Global, ERM and Knight Piésold as preferred DFS contractors for the Northern Katp...
Crude Slips on US-Iran Talks Hopes Despite Strait of Hormuz Still Largely Shut
Oil prices fell sharply on August 3, 2026 on optimism over a potential US-Iran deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, even...
Bauxite Mining Roundup: Cita Mineral Profit Halves, Alcoa Upgraded, Arnhem Land Land Council Proposed
Cita Mineral's H1 profit drops 62% on weaker alumina JV returns, Arnhem Land elders split on a proposed land council ahe...
Iraq-Türkiye seal Ceyhan pipeline deal as Hormuz risks and Middle East strikes roil crude markets
Iraq and Türkiye signed a one-year pipeline accord targeting 750,000 bpd through Ceyhan as Indian refiners halted Iraq l...
Central Banks' Record Q2 Gold Buying Anchors Demand as Jewellery and ETFs Soften
Central banks purchased a record 289 tonnes of gold in Q2 2026, lifting total demand to 1,269 tonnes even as jewellery v...
Coal India Posts 8.4% Production Growth in July as Mine-Safety and Methane Reports Surface
Coal India posted 8.4% July production growth alongside record offtake, as IEEFA examined methane from coking coal mines...
Tata Steel Pivots to Value-Added Products as Indonesia Advances in Global Steel Rankings
Tata Steel shifts strategy toward value-added steel amid rising iron ore costs, while Indonesia climbs to 13th globally ...
Nevada tungsten find lands in policy crosshairs as 2027 Chinese-sourcing deadline looms
3 Proton Lithium estimates 1.78 million tonnes of tungsten at its Nevada project, partly blocked by a NASA-related minin...
Oil futures surge after Iran's missile strike on US forces shatters fragile ceasefire
Oil prices jumped after Iran's July 28 ballistic missile attack on US forces in Jordan ended a four-day price slide, wit...
Huayou Set to Sole-Fund Ghana's Ewoyaa Lithium Project Under Novation Deal
Huayou's proposed US$210M takeover of Atlantic Lithium advances, with a novation to shift Elevra's 22.5% Ghana stake to ...