Australia’s mining giants are threatening both the government of Queensland and the federal authorities with dropping all of their new projects in response to the state’s surprise increase in coal mining royalties.

Kim Rothstein, the second wife of disbarred US attorney Scott Rothstein, who ran a massive $1.2 billion fraudulent investment scheme, was charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering last week as she hid $1 million in jewellery from U.S. authorities trying to seize his assets to repay investors.

Sri Lanka's diamond-swallowing story took an surprising turn Tuesday as police revealed the 1.5 carat stone gulped by Chou Wan, 32, at a gem show was fake.

ABB has won orders totaling $140 million from Brazilian miner giant Vale to supply automation and electrical equipment for the world’s largest iron ore project investment, which includes developing a mine and a processing plant located in the South American country.

Shares of nuclear medicine company Nordion dove close to 40%, down $3.93 at $6.53 in Toronto on Monday.

An alumnus of the University of Arizona is promoting the use of copper alloys as hygienic, alternative construction materials in the healthcare sector.

Massive layoffs are expected before the end of the month at Diavik, in Canada's Northwest Territories, as the diamond mine is set to close its open-pit section.

Silvercorp Metals (TSX/NYSE:SVM) is alleged to have procured the assistance of police in arresting and silencing critics of the company who sought to profit from the short-selling of its stock.

Diversified mining giant Teck Resources Ltd. (TSX:TCK.A) has confessed to polluting the upper reaches of Columbia River in Washington State for nearly a century with effluent discharge from one of its BC-situated smelters.