Broken Hill is relying on a desalination plant installed more than a decade ago, but not needed until now, to make the ...

Broken Hill faces the big dry

Broken Hill has turned on its desalination plant to keep water flowing as the Menindee Lakes, three times as big as Sydney Harbour, run dry.

Glencore chief executive Ivan Glasenberg has been shuttering coal, copper and zinc mines in a bid to combat a rout in ...

Glencore profit target in sight

​Glencore said profit from trading commodities rebounded, putting the miner on course to hit its full-year earnings target for the division as it weathers a rout in prices.

New London silver fix still empty

Build it and they will come. Or that is what participants in London’s $US1.6 trillion ($1.7 trillion) a year silver market will be hoping.

Gold tumbles 2pc, silver sheds more than 3pc

Gold has fallen about 2 per cent, hit by heavy stop-loss orders placed by momentum traders as prices broke below the key 200-day moving average. Silver and platinum group metals also sold off.