With the precious cargo slung over his shoulder, Vikram Singh strides through his field spreading the white granular stuff where it matters most.“I can't afford to waste any...I had to buy it on the black market,” says the 38-year-old farmer from Dostpur Mangroli village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Firstpost reports after a 5% salary increase Lakshmi Mittal took home $1.74 million last year working as the CEO of ArcelorMittal. The […]

Ontario Court Justice Herman Wilton-Siegel dismissed Barrick Gold's claims of unlawful and ineffective transactions by Goldcorp in the acquisition of the El Morro project in Chile.

Qatar's about-turn means that more than 25% of shareholders eligible to vote at the 12 July meeting are now against the deal’s current terms.

At $52 a barrel how can high-cost bitumen producers compete against Saudi-Arabia pumping oil at the fastest rate in 30 years, the ramp-up in the Bakken and vast new gas supplies all around the world? They can't.

The rapid industrialization of China and India will be good for the diamond business, and in the next decade demand will break through the peak reached in 2006, according to an analyst at Bain & Co.

Mongolian Mining Corp hit a record low today as investors looked at the likelihood of more restrictive investment policies to be implemented after Mongolia's parliamentary elections this week.

Scientists around the world, including in Canada, are currently developing robots that can anticipate and prevent mining accidents, such as the dramatic entrapment of 33 Chilean miners in the Atacama Desert in 2010.

British scientists have discovered that adding small amounts of nanodiamonds - pieces of carbon less than a ten-thousandth of the diameter of a human hair - make powder detergent much more effective at removing dirt and grease.