The UN warns there are 40 indigenous groups are at risk of disappearing in the country.

With little or no cellular coverage in remote regions, mining companies have limited options for tracking and monitoring their fleets of vehicles. Anu Sood, Channel Marketing Manager at SkyWave Mobile Communications, discusses how one mining company adopted satellite messaging terminals to manage their fleets and reduce ore and fuel theft.

Erdene Resource owns the Altan Nar gold-polymetallic project, located in southwest Mongolia, 200 kilometres from the border with China.

The Oakajee port and rail project has the potential to become one of the major suppliers of Australian iron ore to Asia.

Weak commodity prices hurt Teck's three core business units —coal, copper and zinc— but coal was particularly hard hit due to increased supply from Australia, the company said.

"We stated from the beginning of this process that we would remain disciplined with respect to our offer to acquire Osisko"

Gold smuggling into India has increased dramatically since the nation hiked its import duty on the yellow metal from 4% to 15% last year.

Very recently, we've been subtly shifting from producers and near-producers to advanced developers.

The move is considered by many a threath to Hong Kong’s transit role.