Mikhail Prokhorov acquired Mercator Minerals through a friendly merger with his company Intergeo MMC.

Following an international tender, Metso and the industrial service provider Ferrostaal Industrieanlagen GmbH, Germany (Ferrostaal) have been awarded a joint contract to build a railcar dumper facility for the iron ore producer Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière (SNIM) in the harbor of Nouadhibou, Mauritania.

Rob Ford is set to get nearly one million pieces of coal this Christmas.

Cutifani said the firm has identified three "buckets" from which it plans to extract about $3.9 billion of extra earnings.

The world’s largest oil and gas firm predicts that by around 2025 gas will be the world’s second most-used fuel, only behind oil.

Terrorism, regime instability and resource nationalism, are the main risks mining investors will face in 2014.

West talks about what has convinced him to start shopping for gold stocks again and the unconventional indicators he's using to signal a buy.

Suspends dividend payments due to low gold price.

And which countries are least prepared?