Now that elections are over, everyone is waiting for a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, but it's not so easy amid the atmosphere of protests that have even traditionally oil-friendly Texans putting up a fight.

Gold stuck in lower $1,700s despite Fed's momentous announcement.

In an original approach to social media marketing, De Beers invited five top international bloggers to its stores in London and New York to pick out which it would be their dream engagement ring.

Canadian Taseko Mines (TSE:TKO) is having a rocky end of the year as workers threaten with a strike at the company’s copper-molybdenum Gibraltar mine, in British Columbia, and First Nation representatives are calling the company to “stop wasting everyone’s time” and withdraw the controversial New Prosperity mine project proposal, also in B.C.

Swiss miner Xstrata (LON:XTA) is delaying the commercial production of its $5.9 billion Tampakan copper-gold project in the Philippines to 2019, Sagittarius Mines Inc, the firm's local unit, said Wednesday.

London-based explorer Stratex (LON:STI) got an early Christmas present this year, as Canadian Centerra Gold (TSX:CG) paid the junior and partner in the Turkey’s Oksut project a noteworthy $40 million for its 30% stake in the venture.

As the year comes to a close and we prepare to extend our coverage further, we are revisiting our most popular expert interviews from 2012.

Ancient plant dye acts as outstanding organic electrode

Spoils of the country's resources bounty will be better distributed as the mining sector enters an operational phase