December 30, 2012

Asteroids mining and miners told to work over Christmas among our most-read stories of 2012

The chance of start mining asteroids, workers told ‘death’ only excuse for not working on Christmas and MINING.com's very own list of top billionaires involved in minerals and metals, became…

December 30, 2012

Expected heir to $300 million copper fortune found dead

A relative of American heiress Huguette Clark, who could have inherited $19 million of her $300 million fortune, has been found dead in Wyoming.

December 29, 2012

Egypt to boost mining in 2013, but first will ‘reconsider’ current licenses

The new authorities are considering offering a number of international bids for mineral exploration, particularly for gold.

December 28, 2012

Glory days, made again in America

U.S. needs to boost resource extraction as part of economic re-growth

December 28, 2012

Lonmin’s CEO resigns due to ‘serious illness’

Simon Scott is acting CEO

December 28, 2012

The five best commodities of 2012

Another year has come to an end, and another 12-month stretch of frantic commodity trading can go in the books.

December 28, 2012

Precious metals sag before fiscal cliff talks

US leadership scheduled for talks this afternoon

December 28, 2012

China’s share of global export market rises to over 11%

China gains despite global contraction

December 28, 2012

Strong performance from mining sector lends an edge to European stocks

STOXX 600 European basic resources index gains1.4% on signs that growth is picking up in China

December 27, 2012

To become a major minerals producer, Venezuela’s biggest challenge is itself

Venezuela has its eye on becoming a major minerals producer, though its capacity to do so is in question, according to Maplecroft's principal Latin America analyst James Lockhart-Smith.