Bindura Nickel signs output off-take agreement with Glencore International. Bindura predicts yearly nickel output at7,000 tonnes.

Randgold's full-year profit $120.6M, compared with $84.3M last year. Company proposes to increase dividend by 18% to 20 cents per share; predicts attributable production of 750,000-790,000 ozs for 2011.

February is recognized nationwide as “Career and Technical Education Month,” and Southeastern Illinois College in Harrisburg will celebrate the occasion accordingly – […]

Dave Baker, training director of the Central Electrical Training Center in Tangent, said the trades sector has been hit especially hard during […]

Colombia coal producer Cerrejon's management and union miners are expected to sign a pay deal on Tuesday.

Craig Wong of The Canadian Press reports on Laurie Sterritt, executive director of the B.C. Aboriginal Mine Training Association, and her solution […]

Students at Algonquin Road Public School, Lively District Secondary School and Espanola High School will share more than $3,700 in funding from […]

The United Nations estimates that the world’s population will reach 7.7 billion by 2020 and 9.3 billion in 2050. Another UN estimate says that only 30 percent of the arable land used in the 1950s will be available in 2050.

The surge in gold prices has spawned a modern-day “gold rush” in British Columbia, Alaska and the Yukon. Where gold panners once searched for nuggets in the frigid waters of northern streams, junior exploration companies are drilling, sampling and pushing ahead with development of new mines. One company that appears to be on the move to becoming that next big producer is Spanish Mountain Gold Ltd. (SPA-V).