RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian miner Vale inaugurated its first high-tech processing plant in using AI after modernizing a facility in Minas Gerais State, the company said on Wednesday, achieving a 25% productivity gain in less than two years.
Venezuela has deployed troops to target illegal groups controlling key gold deposits, according to local residents and human rights activists, as the government seeks to attract foreign investment to the long-stalled mining sector.
Spot gold and silver prices are sharply lower after the close Wednesday, as the May inflation report, elevated Treasury yields and renewed U.S.-Iran escalation overwhelmed residual safe-haven demand. At the time of writing, spot gold was trading near $4,078.00 an ounce, down 4.26%, while spot silver was trading at $63.605, down 2.66% on the session.
Gold suffered its sharpest single-day decline in months on Wednesday, shedding more than 3% as the deepening confrontation between the United States and Iran reframed the conflict not as a safe-haven event, but as an inflation shock that could force the Federal Reserve back into tightening mode.
BEIJING - Barely a week after Nvidia-backed chipmaker Coherent warned of a shortage of indium phosphide in an earnings call in early May, its CEO Jim Anderson was on a plane with a US business delegation accompanying President Donald Trump on his trip to China.
Hundreds of iron-ore miner BHP’s electrical workers at Port Hedland, in Western Australia, have voted in favour of taking strike action, a union said on Thursday.
ASX-listed Nimy Resources and Western Australia's largest university, Curtin University, have announced a partnership to undertake a pioneering research programme into processing highly-in-demand critical mineral gallium.
LAUNCESTON - Iron-ore is the one major commodity that is sailing unaffected through the storm created by the US/Israeli war on Iran, but the relative calm masks shifting dynamics for the key steel raw material.
Coinbase, the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volumes and the largest in the United States, has launched gold and silver perpetual futures for eligible non‑U.S. traders, bringing two of the world’s most established store‑of‑value assets into the crypto derivatives ecosystem.
Vancouver, British Columbia, May 6, 2026 – Arizona Gold & Silver Inc. (“Arizona” or the “Company”) (TSXV: AZS) (OTCQB: AZASF) announces assay results from four diamond drill holes completed as part of its ongoing drill program at the Philadelphia Project in Arizona.
