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Trump-Brokered Deal Sends Up to 1,000 Kg of Venezuelan Gold to U.S. Refineries

At current market prices, a kilogram of gold is valued at roughly $166,000, putting the potential value of the shipment in the hundreds of millions of dollars

Latin Times

How Is Newmont's Stock Performance Compared to Other Gold Miners’ Stocks?

As Newmont has outperformed its industry peers recently, analysts remain highly optimistic about the stock’s prospects.

Barchart

Landslide at DR Congo coltan mine kills more than 200, including children

More than 200 people were killed on Tuesday in a landslide triggered by heavy rains at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's mining ministry said late Wednesday.

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Why Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund is betting big on power companies and Bitcoin miners to fuel the AI boom

New filings show how the former OpenAI researcher is translating his AGI thesis into billions of dollars of bets on electricity, AI infrastructure, and Bitcoin mining companies.

Fortune

Where Should You Put $10,000 Today? Look at These 3 Sectors That Are Winning While Tech Slumps.

If you are fatigued with tech stocks, these income-generating sectors are outperforming in 2026.

Barchart

The 5 Best Copper ETFs to Buy

Gold and silver are more precious, but copper will benefit most from growth in the modern economy. Copper ETFs offer efficient exposure to the industrial metal.

Kiplinger

Why the U.S. is unlikely to curtail China’s critical minerals dominance

The United States government recently hosted a critical minerals summit aimed at reducing China’s predominant role in the global production of smartphones, weapons systems, lithium-ion batteries and electric vehicles (EVs).

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Stocks Sink as Crude Oil Surge Rattles Markets

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -2.18%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -2.27%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -2.37%. March E-mini S&P futures (ESH26 ) are down -2.05%, and March E-mini Nasdaq futures...

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3 rivers merge into striking half-and-half waterway in Guyana — Earth from space

A 2023 satellite photo highlights the point where a trio of rivers converges in Guyana. One of the waterways has been significantly altered by mining waste, creating a striking color contrast.

LiveScience

Glencore's £3.5 bn Kazakh mining deal raises important questions

Little detail has been disclosed publicly about the funding structure behind the proposed Kazzinc purchase

Evening Standard

U.S. Can't Dislodge Guerrillas From Venezuela's Gold and Coltan Flow, Experts Say: 'They Understand Mining Is the Future'

Armed guerrilla groups entrenched in southern Venezuela continue to control vast gold and coltan deposits despite Washington's efforts to reshape the country's political and economic landscape after Nicolás Maduro's capture on January 3

Latin Times

South Africa plans to deploy army as soldiers set to hit the streets

Neighborhoods on the outskirts of Cape Town, known as the Cape Flats, are notorious for deadly gang violence

The Independent UK

Why lithium is not the answer to oil

Lithium's journey from the Big Bang to powering electric vehicles highlights unsustainable mining practices. The article argues for a Rights of Nature approach over critical minerals, criticizing oversized EVs and market-driven resource nationalism. True sustainability requires shifting from infinite growth logic to valuing nature's complexity, not just changing fuels.

The Times of India

An early version of Stardew Valley's mines featured an 'underground goblin village' before ConcernedApe scrapped it

Goblin mode denied.

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Evening Standard

Gains for Rolls-Royce and LSEG offset mining slump

The FTSE 100 index ended up 40.29 points, 0.4%, at 10,846.70, a record close.

MarketBeat

Hycroft Mining: A High-Risk Mining Play With a Huge Potential Payoff

Hycroft Mining's major new mineral resource estimate suggests the company could be sitting on about $50 billion in gold and silver, but can it follow through?

The Guardian - AU

Traditional owners sue Western Australia government for $1.5bn to clean up toxic asbestos at Wittenoom

Town in the state’s Pilbara region was the site of three blue asbestos mines and has been described as ‘the largest contaminated site in the southern hemisphere’

Newslaundry

‘We’ll be buried alive’: Mining turns homes in Rajasthan’s villages into death traps

“Houses have developed cracks because of mining. School buildings are damaged. We will certainly be buried alive under these unsafe houses. It’s safer to live under a tent,” Netram, a sarpanch representative at Ajeetpura village in Kotputli-Behror district of Rajasthan, said while protesting at a dharna against National Limestone Company…

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This Dividend Stock Has Been the Ultimate 'Trump Trade': Should You Buy?

AngloGold Ashanti shares have risen nearly fourfold over the last year. The company also has a healthy trailing dividend yield of 3%.

The Guardian - UK

US accused of ‘shameless exploitation’ over proposed Zambian health aid deal

Leaked draft of $1bn memorandum of understanding reveals mandatory targets, sharing of data, and reported access to mining concessions

The Texas Tribune

Used electric vehicle batteries find new life bolstering the Texas grid

A company is repurposing the batteries to store electricity and sell it to the grid when power from wind and solar dwindles.

The Independent UK

Illegal gold mining surges into new parts of Peru’s Amazon, threatening rivers and lives

Illegal gold mining is spreading into new parts of Peru’s Amazon, and experts say it is driving a growing environmental and health crisis

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re hungry, there are no jobs’: a South African township’s desperate gold rush

A rumour on social media brought dozens of fortune seekers to a field on the outskirts of mining town Springs

AAP

Coal miners dudded by 'inferior' transition help

Councils, unions and other groups have voiced support for the inclusion of export coal mine workers in the flagship federal workforce transition program.

MarketBeat

Gold and Silver Pulled Back—Here’s Why the Bull Case Is Intact

Gold and silver prices remain in a long-term uptrend. These three mining stocks offer leveraged exposure to rising metals demand and improving fundamentals

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