A closer look: NASA rover offers 1.3 billion-pixel views of Mars
"The Curiosity rover is the next best thing to sending a geologist to Mars."
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Oyu Tolgoi to ship first copper this Friday
"We are now ready to ship Oyu Tolgoi’s very first copper concentrate to international markets."
Australia’s insects provide clues to new gold deposits
Research shows ants and termites bring up evidence from five metres underground.
One of the great gold bears reverses course
"If gold bounces $100 from here - which is not that hard to see - then gold stocks will have a big run."
Mining Association of Canada elects first female chair
Zoë Yujnovich replaces former-Xstrata Nickel CEO, Ian Pearce.
Gold price shows muted reaction to upbeat Fed
Gold fell around $17 on Wednesday after the Fed again hinted that QE3 may be tapered off if the US economy continues to improve.
Canadian ambassador says oil will ship with or without Keystone XL pipeline
Heavy crude oil will be sent by train or truck to the US and then on to Asia.
Shandong raises $300m to buy Australian gold miner
The Chinese firm has plans to substantially expand gold production.
Millions of dollars paid by diamond miners in Zimbabwe vanish
Parliamentary committee found "serious discrepancies" between what diamond companies claimed to have paid in local taxes, and what the government said it had received.
