Rio Tinto’s Zimbabwe diamond unit  is showing a 43 percent increase in output, Reuters Africa is reporting: Diamond output from global miner […]

CBC News is reporting that a huge diamond from the Ekati mine in northern Canada was auctioned off in Belgium for $6 […]

Midway Gold's Spring Valley project got a boost on Thursday with the company reporting an extension of the mineralized strike zone. Midway says exploration drilling in the fourth quarter 2010 has extended the strike by 1.8 kilometres to the southwest of the previously discovered gold resource at Spring Valley, Nevada.

A new Ernest & Young report says mining is poised for strong growth this year, thanks to soaring commodity prices backed by […]

Wardrop’s 43-101 report suggests the mine life of the Pebble copper-gold-moly project could span from 25 to 78 years, yielding billions of […]

Vancouver-based Strongbow Exploration Inc. has begun exploring in South Carolina at its Midway gold project. Current exploration work includes geophysical and geochemical […]

Mining Weekly reports on the Vancouver-based company’s significant milestone: completing the project “very substantially” below its $260-million cost target, according to CEO […]

Diversified mining giant Rio Tinto has received an offer for its talc business from French minerals group Imerys, which is valuing the unit […]

Gold has risen every year of the last ten and, after a short breather in January, seems to be continuing its rise. But, while many investors still view gold as the ultimate safe haven in times of change and unrest, there are some that believe returns may be better elsewhere.