December 22, 2015

Study shows 96% of some mining jobs can be automated

INTERACTIVE INFOGRAPHIC: Don't just think truck drivers – 38% of first line mining supervisors' activities can be automated using CURRENT technology.

December 22, 2015

What to expect for 2016: Top predictions for the mining industry

Will commodities continue to “bump along the bottom” or is a recovery coming by mid-year? The jury is out.

December 22, 2015

Australia ok’s vast coal port expansion near Great Barrier Reef

The expansion work will require dredging 1.1 million cubic meters of seabed near the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

December 21, 2015

CGN to Invest CDN$82M at $0.85 in Fission Uranium

FISSION URANIUM CORP. today announced that it has entered into a binding letter of intent with CGN Mining Company Limited.

December 21, 2015

COALspot.com launch CS (i) Coal Index – A new spot price index for Indonesian Thermal coal

With this new arrival of this new coal indices for Indonesian coal, COALspot.com hope to see this new indices bring as much benefit to the Indonesian thermal coal industry as…

December 21, 2015

Fission shares take off on China deal

Hong Kong's CGN Mining buys 20% stake in Kelowna-explorer for $82 million and agrees to uranium offtake from Triple-R project in Saskatchewan.

December 21, 2015

Caterpillar to pay $74 million after found guilty of stealing trade secrets

England-based supplier Miller UK won a case filed five years ago, in which accused CAT of misusing classified information to produce its own coupler, rather than buying it from them.

December 18, 2015

De Beers closing another diamond mine, this time in Botswana

Debswana, a 50/50 joint venture between De Beers and the government of Botswana, is set to close its Damtshaa mine and scale down production at Orapa.

December 17, 2015

2015: Twilight of the Supercycle

A look back at mining and metals in 2015 through MINING.com's most popular stories of the year.

December 17, 2015

Hope fades for 19 trapped coal miners in China

The site remained on fire on Thursday and the temperature inside the mine “could have reached 1,000 degrees” Celsius (over 1,600 Fahrenheit), according to rescue workers.