Topic: Commodities — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-16 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has once again assured the public that America's gold reserves remain fully intact, pushing back against years of speculation surrounding the legendary vaults at Fort Knox. In a Fox News interview with Jesse Watters that aired Monday night, Bessent reiterated his standing assurance that every ounce of the nation's bullion is "present and accounted for" - while making no plans to visit the Kentucky depository himself.
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[2026-07-15 23:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Via SchiffSovereign.com,
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[2026-07-15 22:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Futures are higher led by technology stocks, after solid earnings from ASML offered fresh evidence of the relentless demand for chips enabling the global AI buildout and boosted sentiment across the AI Infra trade. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are up 0.1% and Nasdaq futures rise 0.4%, both off session highs.
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[2026-07-15 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Global development] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Indigenous groups organised mass protests over a series of deals by the president, Rodrigo Paz, that prioritise agribusiness and mining interests
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[2026-07-15 18:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Connect model has evolved from isolated reforms into a blueprint for China’s financial opening up, with Hong Kong as the bridgehead
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[2026-07-15 18:31 UTC+10:00] [Cross-boundary Wealth Management Connect] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Connect model has evolved from isolated reforms into a blueprint for China’s financial opening up, with Hong Kong as the bridgehead
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[2026-07-15 16:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Indika Energy's gold project in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province. The miner is accelerating diversification into gold as coal demand and prices become increasingly volatile. (Indika Energy)
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[2026-07-15 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Photography] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenAlpha, Sihle, Sphesihle & Omega, 2022Mapalakata is the debut publication from South African photographer Robin Bernstein. The title, meaning ‘visitors’ in Bapedi, is drawn from oral histories and was used to describe traders from the east who moved through southern Africa before European colonisation. Mapalakata by Robin Bernstein is available from GostShareView image in fullscreenMarlie, 2022The work is situated in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, on the escarpment bordering Mozambique and Eswatini.
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[2026-07-15 15:45 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: While busy building a multi-asset copper and gold producer in South America, Rio2 Limited has turned its attention north, dusting off a legacy asset in Canada to add a critical minerals string to its copper-gold production bow.
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[2026-07-15 15:43 UTC+10:00] [Property / News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Tammy Hembrow is moving on from her Gold Coast riverfront mansion.
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[2026-07-15 15:24 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Lindian Resources has successfully ticked off another key technical milestone for its Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi. Metallurgical testwork by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) independently validated the company’s full downstream processing route and confirmed a 98 per cent neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) extraction result.
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[2026-07-15 13:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Bruce Thornton posa con Mark Tatum, comisionado adjunto de la NBA, después de ser seleccionado por los Knicks de Nueva York en la segunda ronda del draft de la NBA, el miércoles 24 de junio de 2026, en Nueva York. (AP Foto/Yuki Iwamura)
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[2026-07-15 12:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A 10-foot-tall, gold-colored trophy mocking US President Donald Trump’s involvement in the Iran war appeared on the National Mall on Monday.
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[2026-07-15 12:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks during the first round of the NBA basketball draft, Tuesday, June 23, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
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[2026-07-15 12:06 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Dateline Resources has hit paydirt from first-pass rock chip sampling at its district-scale Music Valley heavy rare earths project in California, with one sample returning a stunning 7.13 per cent total rare earth oxides (TREO).
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[2026-07-15 10:09 UTC+10:00] [Swimming] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Australian athlete, 27, won two Olympic gold medals in Paris
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[2026-07-15 07:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Mining Accidents and Incidents
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[2026-07-15 07:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-15 01:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 photo, Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, who is charged currently in the U.S. for evading sanctions on Iran, is surrounded by the media members as he arrives at a courthouse in Istanbul, in a separate case against him. (Depo Photos via AP, File)
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[2026-07-15 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-14 20:20 UTC+10:00] [Sports] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-07-14 19:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The European Union is banning the purchase, import and transfer of Sudanese gold in a bid to curb sources of financing for the country’s devastating conflict.
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[2026-07-14 17:42 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Treasurer Jim Chalmers has frozen the shareholder rights of a group Chinese-linked investors he believes are seeking to illegally gain control over an undeveloped but strategically important Australian rare earth mining project.
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[2026-07-14 16:16 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Age
Snippet: In a move likely to de-risk its path to becoming a gold producer, Aureka Limited has sidestepped the need to build the company’s own processing plant by signing a toll milling agreement with Core Prospecting, the owners of the Wedderburn gold processing mill in Victoria.
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[2026-07-14 15:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Tue 14 Jul 2026 at 3:10pm
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[2026-07-14 14:16 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Advance Metals has unearthed its most significant polymetallic drill hit to date at its 100 per cent-owned Gavilanes silver project in Mexico.
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[2026-07-14 13:07 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Olympio Metals has muscled its way into the US critical minerals scene, completing the acquisition of a high-grade silver and copper project in Montana and an antimony play in Idaho, both of which come with some eye-watering historical production numbers.
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[2026-07-14 13:06 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: In a show of confidence in the company’s downstream rare earths strategy, Hastings Technology Metals is set to double the planned output of its Thailand processing plant before major construction gets underway.
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[2026-07-14 12:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump on Monday signed executive orders slashing two national monuments in Utah to roughly a tenth of their current size, throwing open millions of acres of protected land to fossil fuel extraction and mining.
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[2026-07-14 06:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Mining and Metals Industry
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[2026-07-14 04:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The price of Brent crude has jumped more than three percent while gold prices slumped further as fighting between the US and Iran continues.
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[2026-07-14 01:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council has announced the recovery of 375kg of gold connected to a case involving the arrest last month of the former Deputy Minister of Oil for Refining Affairs, Adnan Al Jumaili, on suspicion of corruption.
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[2026-07-13 22:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US equity futures are lower on a combination of US/Iran escalation (which is feeding inflationary concerns) and a violent crash in South Korean stocks (which saw SK Hynix plunge by 15% overnight, the most on record, and unironically follows its record ADR launch in the US), which has put Semis and tech under renewed pressure.
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[2026-07-13 21:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Firefighters drive along Highway 550 as they try to access the Gold Mountain Fire on the town line of Ouray and Ridgeway, Colo., on Sunday, June 28, 2026. (Michael Seamans/The Gazette via AP)
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[2026-07-13 21:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong Cat Expo organiser says growing proportion of ageing felines will drive future market growth as owners seek better care for pets
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[2026-07-13 21:12 UTC+10:00] [Wan Chai] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong Cat Expo organiser says growing proportion of ageing felines will drive future market growth as owners seek better care for pets
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[2026-07-13 20:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presented Donald Trump with a personalised, gold-plated revolver and ammunition during Trump’s visit to Ankara for last week’s Nato summit, multiple sources with knowledge of the matter told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-07-13 17:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A 375kg haul of gold has been recovered in the investigation linked to detained deputy oil minister Adnan Al Jumaili in Iraq, the Supreme Judicial Council announced on Monday.
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[2026-07-13 17:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Police seized 74kg of gold and US$15 million in cash linked to Febrie Adriansyah, who until last week headed the Special Crimes Division
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[2026-07-13 17:25 UTC+10:00] [Indonesia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Police seized 74kg of gold and US$15 million in cash linked to Febrie Adriansyah, who until last week headed the Special Crimes Division
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[2026-07-13 16:51 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Great Southern Mining has kicked off a major 15,000m reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaign at its Golden Boulder discovery.
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[2026-07-13 16:22 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Dalaroo Metals says it has completed a transformational field program at its Blue Lagoon rare earths project in southern Greenland, evolving the asset from an early-stage concept into a well-defined regional system with a swag of new targets.
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[2026-07-13 15:33 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Kaiser Reef has finished the June quarter in style, pouring 6000 ounces of gold across its Henty and Maldon operations, paying down debt and closing with $37.2 million in cash as it heads into the new financial year.
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[2026-07-13 14:36 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Critica Limited has unearthed further high-grade rare earth mineralisation at its flagship Jupiter project in Western Australia, with a chunky resource definition drilling program confirming continuity of the priority zones set to underpin an updated resource estimate.
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[2026-07-13 14:15 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Aguia Resources appears to have cracked the code at its high-grade Santa Barbara gold project in Colombia, with six months of restructuring transforming a faltering start-up into a high-grade gold operation hitting its stride.
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[2026-07-13 13:25 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Kuniko Limited has officially fired up the drill rig for a second tilt at its Commonwealth-Silica Hill gold-silver project in NSW’s tier-one Lachlan Fold Belt.
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[2026-07-13 13:05 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Hastings Technology Metals has infused fresh life into the rare earths story at its Yangibana project in Western Australia’s Gascoyne region, unveiling an updated definitive feasibility study (DFS) that points to a capital-light, de-risked pathway to stage one production.
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[2026-07-13 11:43 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Dateline Resources has received a major shot in the arm for its flagship Colosseum gold project in California, with the United States Department of Justice, or “DOJ”, throwing its weight behind the company in a federal court stoush.
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[2026-07-13 11:11 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: In July 2024, the Sado Island Gold Mines in Japan were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List amid significant controversy. Having been placed on the tentative list in 2010, the site underwent 14 years of change — not only in name, but also in its component parts, boundaries and stated values — before finally becoming a World Heritage Site.
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[2026-07-13 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A NSW government department is refusing to say how much taxpayers will spend for hundreds of bureaucrats to attend a three-night “gold, grit and greatness” conference in Bathurst, which is taking place as some staff at the agency fear they may lose their jobs in a looming restructure.
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