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Top 50 mining companies reshuffle as Chinese, lithium firms climb rankings

By analyst By Frik Els Tintaya concentrator Peru. Source: Glencore After a banner 2016, the recovery in the mining sector slowed dramatically this year and in some instances fortunes reversed. At the half-year mark, the world’s 50 largest listed firms are worth a collective $768 billion, adding nearly $12 billion in market capitalization to year-to-end

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Gold rebounds on North Korea’s nuclear testing, Fed minutes in focus

By analyst By MINING.com Editor Gold prices picked up Wednesday on North Korea’s successful test-launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, and gloomy US economic data. Bullion rose as high as $1,228.40 an ounce after US secretary of state Rex Tillerson said last night North Korea’s test represented “a new escalation of the threat” to the

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