Copper plunges from 15-year highs
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Copper prices have staged a dramatic plunge on the London Metal Exchange (LME) on fears of falling demand from key markets in China and the US.
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The dollar hung near a 15-year low against a basket of currencies on Friday, as investors debated whether a sharp drop in the value of the U.S. currency this week was overdone.
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POTOSI, Bolivia  - High silver prices are drawing a frenzy of miners to a colonial-era mine at Potosi in Bolivia, but the mine has become so dangerous that authorities fear the mine, part of a World Heritage Site, could collapse.
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The copper miner said its fourth-quarter earnings fell 3 percent from a slew of one-time charges and higher costs, despite surging revenue.
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Gold hit $440.00 an ounce, its highest  in 16-1/4 years, in Europe on Monday and was seen consolidating  before rising further on a shaky dollar.
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Gold price at record levels? Pah! It ain't like it used to be. Compared with the frenzy that went on back in 1979-80, the last time prices were this high, reaction to the current rise to record levels for the yellow metal is decidedly tame.
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Gold hit another record high on Monday before losing some strength, but turmoil in financial markets and expectations of aggressive U.S. rate cuts may help the metal touch the psychological level of $900 an ounce soon.
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Mining stocks led the FTSE higher on Thursday with Antofagasta, the copper producer focused on Chile, up 3.1 per cent to 476p on talk that a special dividend of up to 40 US cents a share could be paid when full-year results are announced on Tuesday.
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Gold fell from a 16-year closing high in London, the first drop in five days, as the dollar rose against the euro, decreasing the appeal of the dollar-denominated metal as an alternative investment to US assets.
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Big copper has provided big results, but what's next for the share price?
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Steelmaker reports big profits, disturbing trends.
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Commodities rise to record levels on demand, dollar depreciation.
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More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it
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A massive gold producer makes money off of oil, copper, and a global distrust of the dollar.
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The price of platinum reached a record high point of 1,503.50 dollars an ounce on the Platinum and Palladium market on Tuesday, having breached 1,500 dollars for the first time late on Monday
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Operations are OK, but the dollar's doing definite damage to this metal miner.
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SNOWBIRD - The mining industry helped build Utah&#39;s economy, but boom-time digging led to a modern-day landscape pockmarked with holes that once produced silver, gold, copper and lead.