The Toronto Stock Exchange opened this morning moderately higher as commodity prices increased driven mainly by traders’ hopes of a U.S. housing market in recovery mode.

The Australian Senate approved today a mining legislation that imposes a 30% tax on coal and iron ore miners, allowing the government to take a larger part of profits from a mining boom pushed by Chinese and Indian demand for raw materials.

Teck Resources LimitedLimited ("Teck", TSX: TCK.A and TCK.B, NYSE: TCK) and the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center of the Ministry of Agriculture of China (NATESC) announced today that they have signed an agreement to demonstrate and promote zinc fertilizer use in China.

Vale SA (VALE3), Brazil’s biggest exporter, has shut a railroad that transports production from the world’s largest iron ore mine after a construction accident.

Rex Murphy takes his Sunday morning talk show, CBC Radio’s Cross Country Checkup, to Fort McMurray.

Thorium, a touted alternative to uranium energy, may get an entirely different push to broader usage: scientist trying to come up with a technology that could power a future moon colony.

While stories about drug lords and illegal immigrants hog the headlines, Mexico is quietly building a middle class, and that's a good thing for miners and investors.

Chile's supreme court has confirmed a previous appeals court ruling that ordered state copper producer Codelco to pay the costs of the legal process i...

A roughneck can net $7,000 a month in northern Alberta, just don't drop anything down the hole.