Mining News

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

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...

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

Searchers have found the remains of nine or...

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...

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

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...

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.

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…

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

A Chinese court convicted four employees of mining giant Rio Tinto including an Australian national Monday on bribery and trade secrets charges, handing down jail terms ranging from...

The Dongria Kondh tribe who live in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa do not normally go to the top of the bauxite-rich slopes. The hilltop is considered sacred and they leave it undisturbed. But recently, the Dongria Kondh set aside custom and gathered in droves at the top of Niyamgiri...

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...

An armed gang has stolen $2.23 million worth of gold bars from...

British scientists have revealed evidence that a mining company drilling for gas was responsible for unleashing a mud volcano in Indonesia which has killed...

A delegation of Chinese dignitaries, including a senior resources minister, flew into Casey Station in Antarctica to meet Australian officials...

Petra Diamonds announces that the 168.00 carat special white diamond recently recovered at the Cullinan mine in South Africa was sold on 26 November for...

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