Sector blames delays in environmental approvals and decreased demand of commodities from overseas.

Despite record production figures, the world’s no.1 miner's shares dropped in the ASX today.

Study shows the market is expected to grow more than 8% a year through 2017.

The Hiroshima analogy.

An innovative water saving foam has been launched today at the World Future Energy Summit 2014 as a response to the challenge to conserve water resources in Abu Dhabi. This foam provides the perfect medium for water to be captured in volumes of up to 60 percent and then efficiently released back into the soil to be absorbed by plant roots.

Over the last 20 years CDE Global has established itself as a leading supplier of wet processing technology for quarries and mines with equipment operating throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America and North America. The success to date in North America, particularly along the East Coast, has led to the formation of CDE Global Inc.

The world's biggest potash producer will sell 700,000 tonnes to China for $305 per tonne in the first half of 2014.

The result won't surprise many considering potash prices plummeted over the past year.

Investors should worry less about the right balance of specific commodities and more about the right mix of early-stage, development-stage and producing companies.