Cecilia Jamasmie, Author at MINING.COM

About 40,000 hectares of Amazonic forest, not 18,000 as the government thought, has been destroyed by illegal mining in Peru.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 16, 2013 | 8:00 am

The world-class deposit has proven reserves of 2.5 billion tonnes at 34% iron.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 13, 2013 | 6:13 pm

China yesterday and the US next week, both banning construction of new coal-fired power plants.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 13, 2013 | 4:46 pm

President Obama has reportedly made his choice for the next Federal Reserve's chairman.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 13, 2013 | 2:26 pm

Company said mining contractors were adding waste rock from development tunnels to ore trucks before they were weighed.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 13, 2013 | 11:14 am

Company removed employees from the mine’s lower pit and halted operations for the nigh as precautionary measures.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 12, 2013 | 6:26 pm

The Pilbara and Yilgarn Cratons regions were once a small continent, about the size of Japan.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 12, 2013 | 4:56 pm

The decision means that Rio Tinto and partner Wright Prospecting can start developing the vast iron ore deposit.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 12, 2013 | 3:53 pm

Agency officials took part last month in an "armed inspection" to several gold mines near the remote town of Chicken, Alaska.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 12, 2013 | 1:51 pm

Gold prices continued to nose-dive on Thursday, falling around 2,5% this morning to $1,329 after hitting a low $1,326 earlier.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 12, 2013 | 1:14 pm

Cecilia Jamasmie , Editor-in-Chief