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January 17, 2017

Private capital rotating into mining and metals

After four-plus years of declines, 2016 was a comeback year for natural resources and the oil and mining industries – with only a couple of exceptions, energy, metal and mineral prices rallied last year.
January 7, 2017

Annual change in mining commodity prices: 2014 – 2016

December 18, 2016

Zinc producer Nyrstar sells some mining assets to Glencore for $26m

Zinc producer Nyrstar (EBR:NYR) is moving ahead with its plans to move away from mining by offloading a multimetallic mine in Peru and various claims in Quebec to subsidiaries of Glencore (LON:GLEN).
December 6, 2016

Top 10 mines riding zinc price wave

With a more than 75% price jump over the year, zinc is the best performing major metal throughout the mineral commodities market.
November 27, 2016

Zinc shoots to 8-year high on expected metal deficit

The last time the benchmark zinc price was this high, Americans were in the throws of an election that saw Barack Obama take over from George W. Bush.