Whip smart and devious, Frederick Heinze took advantage of the so-called apex law, a provision that allowed owners of a surface outcrop to mine it wherever it led.

The class-action dates back to 2008 and accuses seven companies of engaging in a global conspiracy to raise the price of potash.

It will be 12 to 18 months before there will even be any signs of a recovery in the eastern US coal sector says Monty Boyd, a major Caterpillar supplier for the region.

1,000 residents of Jangas, a district located in Huaraz in the Ancash region of Peru, are demanding that Barrick leave the region after police killed a resident who held demonstrations against the company.

After a tough week Belo Sun is holding onto 36% gains since the start of the year indicating the confidence the market has that the investigation into its Brazilian gold project is just a temporary hiccup.

When Leily Omoumi, a gold analyst with Scotiabank in Toronto, turns her engineer's eye on a mining company, she can translate insight into profits for investors.

Custom seizures of gold are up 50% with one of the latest cases a father and daughter arrested trying to squirrel out 50kg of the metal in unmarked ingots.

First half market shortfall climbs to 292,000 tonnes as mine production grows just 2.4%.

Researchers in the University of York' s Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence and the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) are giving a whole new meaning to the concept of “green mining,” as they said Friday they will develop a technique called "phyto-mining," which uses plants to extract platinum group metals (PGM) discarded during mine processing.