While not especially rare and not really earths, there is no doubting the difficulties in mining and processing the rare earth group of metals, or their importance to the global economy.

Iron ore price declines to resume as Shanghai rebar drops to record low Wednesday with bears calling rally just a blip before prices retreat to $40s again.

$1 billion worth of repatrition.

X2 Resources still in race for Anglo's mines but "couldn't make the numbers work" for Barrick's Zaldivar with seven firms outbidding the $5 billion fund.

Palladium enters bear market and platinum hits fresh six-and-a-half year low on worries over Greek debt crisis.

Turkey is partially located on a geological structure that may yield gold discoveries (Steve Todoruk, at Sprott Global Resource Investments, recently brought one project to our attention).

At a celebratory function on 11 June, the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Mining Engineering paid tribute to the enormous contribution made by its former Head of School, Professor Fred Cawood, during his five year tenure from 2010 to 2014. Professor Cawood remains in the School as the Professor of Mine Surveying and leader of the school’s digital mine project.

Showing over 1,250 attempted transactions, this list includes both successful and failed attempts in order to visualize the ebb and flow of Chinese investments up until mid-2014.

Based on the continued failure of the negotiating parties to make any substantive progress in the talks over Greek debt payments, the financial world is tied up in knots over a possible Greek exit from the European Union.