Anglo American abandons Alaskan copper project Pebble
Partner in the open-pit gold and copper project, Northern Dynasty Minerals, was quick to clarify it will still go ahead with it.
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About 40,000 hectares of Amazonic forest, not 18,000 as the government thought, has been destroyed by illegal mining in Peru.
Five men trapped in China mine flood
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Murder investigation sends Aussie police down abandoned mine shaft
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Glencore considers $3 billion iron ore mine in Congo
The $3 billion estimate is down from an initial $7.4 billion.
New AISC measure of gold production costs gaining momentum
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Summers drops out of Fed race. Gold jumps 2%
Janet Yellen, now the clear frontrunner, is considered the main architect of the Fed's quantitative easing program under which gold has gained 60%.
Mongolia opens new door to world’s richest coking coal fields
Mongolia is offering infrastructure companies ways to swap investments for equity in 6.4 billion tonne Tavan Tolgoi met coal deposit.