Topic: Commodities — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-01 21:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Suspenseful and visually stunning it might be, but Gold Land so far features too vague a narrative and lacks character depth
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[2026-05-01 21:15 UTC+10:00] [Gold Land] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Suspenseful and visually stunning it might be, but Gold Land so far features too vague a narrative and lacks character depth
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[2026-05-01 17:06 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Kaiser Reef has ramped up throughput at its Porcupine Flat processing plant in Victoria, successfully transitioning to a two-shift operation at its Maldon gold project.
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[2026-05-01 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Racing] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Reece Jones thought he might lose the ride on Vivy Air following a troubled run in the Doncaster then missing a trial leading into the Ciaron Maher-trained mare’s Hawkesbury Gold Cup (1600m) tilt on Saturday.
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[2026-05-01 16:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Mining and Metals Industry
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[2026-05-01 15:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: With 980,000 visitors from the mainland expected during golden week, Hong Kong lenders line up incentives to capture wealthy customers
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[2026-05-01 15:30 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: With 980,000 visitors from the mainland expected during golden week, Hong Kong lenders line up incentives to capture wealthy customers
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[2026-05-01 15:04 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Critical Resources has clocked a high-impact exploration update after wrapping up dual-pronged field programs at its Lammerlaw and Croesus projects in New Zealand. The company is sniffing out high-grade gold and critical minerals across both projects.
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[2026-05-01 13:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Graham Dawson, 62, was killed at the Crinum underground mine during a roof collapse in September 2021. (ABC News: Vanessa Jarrett)
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[2026-05-01 13:02 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Officers who raided the apartment of Annastacia Palaszczuk’s partner on the Gold Coast are investigating a claim of sexual assault.
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[2026-05-01 12:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Television Industry
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[2026-05-01 12:06 UTC+10:00] [Australian media] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The shock jock is suing ARN Media after it tore up his contract over his on-air behaviour towards co-host Jackie O. Plus: The Australian’s Instagram fail
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[2026-05-01 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: America's worrisome dependency on foreign sources of lithium could become a thing of the past: About 328 years' worth of last year's lithium imports is buried in Appalachia, according to a new analysis published by the US Geological Survey (USGS). That's about 2.3 million metric tons of undiscovered but economically recoverable lithium -- aka "white gold."
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[2026-05-01 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Olympic gold medallist and Women’s Rugby World Cup winner changing lives off the field following unsparing 2022 autobiography
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[2026-05-01 10:00 UTC+10:00] [HSBC Brand Ambassador] [Factuality: 95]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Olympic gold medallist and Women’s Rugby World Cup winner changing lives off the field following unsparing 2022 autobiography
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[2026-05-01 08:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Police have raided a luxury Gold Coast apartment owned by Dr Vahid Reza Adib. (AAP: Jono Searle)
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[2026-05-01 06:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Local Government
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[2026-05-01 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: At the 50th HNB National Age Group Swimming Championship 2026 held at the Sugathadasa Stadium Swimming pool Complex Colombo Sanumi Nehansa of Lyceum, Panadura produced a fine performance in the Under-13 category. She won the silver medal in the 200m freestyle with a time of 2:36.87 and took the bronze medal in the 100m freestyle with a time of 1:12.26.
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[2026-05-01 05:31 UTC+10:00] [Sports] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lankan promising weight lifters clinched two silver medals and four bronze medal at the Commonwealth Youth and Junior Weightlifting championship which is now in progress in Apia in Samoa.
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[2026-05-01 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-05-01 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Guy Montgomery has won Best Male Comedian at the NZ Comedy Guild Awards three times, and was awarded the 2025 Silver Logie for Best New Talent. (Supplied: Jubilee Street Management/Nick Pics)
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[2026-05-01 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Tan France looks totally unrecognizable after switching up his signature hair color.
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[2026-05-01 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Adani Enterprises oversees units operating in businesses as wide as coal mining, copper smelting, new energy, airports and road infrastructure. © Reuters
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[2026-04-30 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Until Japan’s capital was moved to Tokyo in 1869, the country’s emperors ruled from Kyoto’s Imperial Palace for 11 centuries. During that millennium, the city flowered with dozens of shrines, temples and castles built in a rhapsodic variety of East Asian vernaculars: some meditative and simple, some with towering Chinese-style pagodas, others wrapped in gold.
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[2026-04-30 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Racing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Trainer Joe Pride is counting on versatile veteran Estadio Mestalla defying the odds again first up when he flies the flag for the expanding Warwick Farm stable in the Hawkesbury Gold Rush (1100m) on Saturday.
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[2026-04-30 16:40 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Dalaroo Metals has just ticked off a major milestone at its Blue Lagoon critical minerals project in south-west Greenland, successfully acquiring full control of its core exploration licence, which hosts the majority of the project.
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[2026-04-30 15:37 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Siren Gold is steadily unravelling what could be one of New Zealand’s more intriguing forgotten mineral systems, stretching its Queen Charlotte antimony-gold project out to an impressive 8 kilometres of strike.
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[2026-04-30 14:19 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Middle East war has triggered the biggest global energy supply shock on record and will drive a sharp rise in commodity prices, pushing inflation higher and slowing economic growth worldwide, the World Bank has warned.
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[2026-04-30 14:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Pilungah Reserve, which features vast sandy dunes home to rare wildlife, will now have the same protections as a national park. (Supplied: Bush Heritage Australia)
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[2026-04-30 13:44 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Augustus Minerals has struck paydirt in a first-ever drilling campaign at its Clifton East prospect north of Leonora in Western Australia, returning a swag of shallow intersections at the untouched gold ground.
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[2026-04-30 09:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: With less than three weeks to go the Trump-Xi summit in China, the scramble for leverage and superiority - whether in terms of the Iran war or the just as important supply chain of rare earths - is on. That explains why the Pentagon’s push to get its hands on the rarest of the rare-earth elements leads all the way to this small port city in Malaysia.
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[2026-04-30 06:00 UTC+10:00] [Sports] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s Nipuni Wasana won the gold medal in the women’s 50kg beach wrestling at the 6th Asian Beach Games in Sanya, China yesterday. The 21-year-old, coached by Suranga Kumara, defeated Vietnam’s Doan Thi Kim Oanh 3-1 in the final to give Sri Lanka its first gold medal of the Games.
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[2026-04-30 05:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Energy prices are projected to surge by 24% this year to their highest level since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as the war in the Middle East sends a severe shock through global commodity markets, according to the World Bank Group’s latest Commodity Markets Outlook. Overall commodity prices are forecast to rise 16% in 2026, driven by soaring energy and fertilizer prices and record-high prices for several key metals.
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[2026-04-30 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sililare, directed by Shirley Samarasinghe, is a film that moves from one valley of Sri Lankan cinema to another, inviting not merely surface-level viewing but deep reflection beyond what is seen.
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[2026-04-30 05:43 UTC+10:00] [King Charles III] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Zohran Mamdani said he would not meet UK monarch privately, noting Indian diamond claimed by crown in 1849
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[2026-04-30 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has provided a financial grant to rising javelin thrower Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage who has went on to set up a new meet record of 89.28m and won the gold medal at the AIP Keino Classic Meet in Nairobi, Kenya recently. He was awarded Rs. 10 million.
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[2026-04-30 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Since the last FOMC meeting (on March 18), gold has been clubbed like a baby seal ("EM piggy bank") while stocks and oil have surged (with the former ignoring the peril of the latter)...
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[2026-04-30 02:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Energy prices are anticipated to surge 24% in 2026, the largest jump since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as a result of the Iran conflict, the World Bank predicted in the latest Commodity Markets Outlook published on Tuesday.
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[2026-04-29 23:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Olympic gold medallist Zhang Jun, who is also vice-president of Nanjing Sport Institute, has been placed ‘under disciplinary review’
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[2026-04-29 23:48 UTC+10:00] [Central Commission for Discipline Inspection] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Olympic gold medallist Zhang Jun, who is also vice-president of Nanjing Sport Institute, has been placed ‘under disciplinary review’
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[2026-04-29 22:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: When the Lakers tipoff against the Rockets on Wednesday night at Crypto.com Arena for Game 5 of their first-round playoff series, all eyes will be on the five players on the court wearing purple and gold.
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[2026-04-29 21:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Many millions depend on the river but toxic run-off from mining for modern technology - including for war - could be an existential threat
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[2026-04-29 21:22 UTC+10:00] [Vietnam] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Many millions depend on the river but toxic run-off from mining for modern technology - including for war - could be an existential threat
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[2026-04-29 19:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CHIANG SAEN, Thailand — Perched on the bow of his long-tail fishing boat, 75-year-old Sukjai Yana untangled a handful of small fish from his net, disappointed by his catch and fretting over whether he can sell them.
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[2026-04-29 18:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered a comprehensive 30-day audit of the country’s mining export revenues and state assets.
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[2026-04-29 17:04 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Age
Snippet: West Wits Mining has opted to trim the fat from its asset portfolio, striking a deal to offload its Mt Cecelia gold project in Western Australia while retaining a meaningful stake in any future success.
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[2026-04-29 16:40 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Chariot Resources has officially shifted into high gear in West Africa, revealing that it has now secured half of the mining titles required to finalise its acquisition of a massive Nigerian lithium portfolio.
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[2026-04-29 15:38 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Kaiser Reef has kept the good times rolling at its Henty gold mine in Tasmania, pumping out a stellar $14.28 million in net cash from operating activities and boosting its cash stash by more than 5 per cent to $45.6 million at the end of the March quarter.
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[2026-04-29 15:20 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: LX International said Wednesday its first-quarter operating profit nearly doubled from the previous quarter, as stronger commodity prices and a recovery in trading lifted earnings.
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[2026-04-29 14:41 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s Nipuni Wasana has won the gold medal in the Women’s 50kg beach wrestling event at the 6th Asian Beach Games in Sanya, China.
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