BHP, China Moly in final stretch for Barrick’s Zaldivar
Zaldivar is across the road from BHP and Rio Tinto's Escondida in Chile, the world's largest copper mine.
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This 65-year beer vs gold price chart is the only one you need
Come Oktoberfest you could be partying like it's 1980.
GRAPHS: Gold’s ever shrinking role in world financial system
Paper beats rock.
This tiny US mining town began burning 52 years ago and never stopped
The former mining town of Centralia, in Pennsylvania, has been on fire since 1962, when a coal seam running into a mine shaft set on fire. It hasn't stopped ever since.
Iron ore nose-dives, hits fresh lows of $44.6 per tonne
Chinese import price for 62% iron content fines at the port of Qinqdao lost $5.01 or 10.01% of its value to $44.59 a tonne, the largest percentage drop on record.
SNL Energy’s latest coal forecast, and gas-fired generation overtakes coal burn for 1st time
Coal market prices continued to trade under pressure in June, with weather retaining shoulder-season qualities in the primary coal using regions.
UN Human Rights unit roasts Canada over mining, aboriginal treatment
The human rights committee is currently meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of finalizing its report and is hearing from Canadian non-government groups, including Amnesty, and from the federal government.
S. Africa campaigners jump all over Marikana killings report
They claim the official report on the police killing of 34 striking miners in 2012 is a "gross defamation" of those who died.
INFOGRAPHIC – Crisis investing: How 14 asset classes performed in times of distress
Today's infographic compares how 14 different asset classes have performed during the last five crises.
