1+ week, 1+ day ago   (59+ words) Mineral smuggling has reached alarming levels, with suspected illegal movements involving more than 2 600 tonnes of strategic minerals recorded this year alone, raising fresh concerns over the scale of wealth being lost through leakages and illicit exports, Parliament heard this week....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (174+ words) The Ghana Chamber of Mines has cautioned that Ghana’s plan to refine gold locally could become expensive for the industry unless government takes steps to reduce the cost of running refineries. - You are only allowed to submit content which you…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (209+ words) The meeting matters well beyond Malaysia. In Great Powers Era 2.0™, globalization is not disappearing—it is being renegotiated. Resource-rich low- and middle-income countries increasingly want more than royalties from exporting raw materials. They want processing, technology, skilled employment, and a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (149+ words) Malaysia has the rocks. China has much of the recipe. The West raises the prospect of capital. And increasingly, Kuala Lumpur wants it all. The Xinhua thesis gets the industrial economics right. Malaysia needs more than deposits. It needs extraction…...

4+ week, 13+ hour ago   (392+ words) Now let’s take a look at where precious metals stand, starting with gold, which leads the overall complex. After rebounding sharply from its $3,900 to $4,100 support zone and breaking above the downtrend line that had been in effect for much of…...