Mining News

The diamond industry's Kimberley Process is failing due to a lack of accountability and follow-up, paving the way for an illegal trade that could see a return of conflict stones to world markets...

The surest route to big bucks was running an oil or natural gas company. Their CEOs represented seven of the...

A mining company which claims that hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold is waiting to be recovered from the seabed off the West Coast is to start an exploration voyage on Monday...

Gold Fields Limited (Gold Fields) is set to become the world's first gold mining company to sell Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs), the financial securities used to trade carbon emissions...

Research vessel Tangaroa has set sail on Wednesday for the remote Kermadec Arc to study the mineral exploitation potential of deep-sea volcanoes...

Searchers have found the remains of nine or...

Resource…Super…Profits… Mention these words in the same sentence and you are sure to get a positive response from most stakeholders in the mining industry. However, should you add the dreaded word...

OZ Minerals and IMX Resources Limited have now signed an Exploration Joint Venture Agreement to explore for, and facilitate the development of…

Congo's copper-rich Katanga province has banned the export of unprocessed mineral concentrates in a bid to…

BP has released an incredible new underwater video showing oil and gas erupting under pressure in large, dark clouds from safety device on the ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico.

Grupo Mexico retook control of Mexico's biggest copper mine after hundreds of federal police dislodged protesting workers on strike for nearly three years...

The cost of the response to date amounts to approximately $2.65 billion, including the cost of...

The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter...

The 115 miners survived for eight days underground by eating sawdust, tree bark, paper and even coal. Some strapped themselves to…

Anindilyakwa land and sea rangers say a manganese mine is causing mud in a river on Groote Eylandt to turn black...

Petra Diamonds Limited announces that the two Cullinan white diamonds of 58 and 53 carats were sold in early November for US$2.8 million...

Recently, carbon-free copper smelting technology, a technology with full independent intellectual property rights, has passed expert examination...

The Doe Run Co. says it will clean up about 240 acres of former mining land in the western part of Jasper County. About 80 acres of the land is the former Snapp Mine north of Joplin. The other two sites are...

Gold rose to a record in London and New York on speculation that a weakening dollar and faster inflation will boost the appeal of precious metals. Gold reached...

Those who are wondering where is gold headed for, here is the answer...