The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council of India (GJEPC) has announced that industry’s shipments to the United States have declined 44.4% year on year in April-December of 2025.
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The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) has announced that in 2025, its total traded volumes increased by 30% year on year to $46.96 billion, and surpassed 2 million lots.
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Industrial gold production in Mali declined by 22.9% in 2025, according to provisional data from the country's mines ministry, which was significantly impacted by a prolonged suspension at Barrick Mining's operations.
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Rio Tinto will supply the first copper produced using Nuton, a proprietary bioleaching technology, to Amazon for its US data centres.
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Trafigura Group has signed a first-of-its kind $800 million critical metals insurance policy with the Saudi Export-Import Bank (EXIM) during the Future Minerals Forum 2026 in Riyadh.
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By Bob Takai
(lbma.org.uk) - Few may know that Kyoto is considered the birthplace of Japan’s precious metals refining. It wasn’t until the 15th century that Japan became one of the world’s top producers of gold and silver, with the Sado Gold Mine and the Iwami Silver Mine at the centre. Yet, due to limited technology, gold and silver couldn’t be extracted from copper ores; instead, the crude copper containing these precious metals was exported, at the price of copper.
