For centuries, pilgrims have thronged to the Chilean mountain town of Andacollo – to worship at the historic church and to mine the dusty hills for copper. Now a new wave of pilgrims is worshipping at the altar of Andacollo – Canadians, in the form of Teck Resources Ltd., which that has spent more than US$ 440 million expanding an open-pit copper project on the edge of town.

GigaOMtech predicts that the solar sector will do very well in India because the government is heavily involved in the coal and the oil and gas sector.

The Argentine supreme court has ordered the national and the San Juan provincial governments to submit the environmental reports that were used to approve Canadian miner Barrick Gold's (NYSE: ABX) bi-national Pascua Lama gold-silver project, a source from the court told BNamericas.

North America will head global energy investments this year, driven by boom in unconventional production, with a $392 billion on upstream capital and operating expenditures in the region, say global consultants from IHS.

Energy Transfer (NYSE: ETP), a natural gas transportation company based in Texas, and Sunoco, Inc. (NYSE: SUN) agreed on a US$5.3 billion merger in a cash and stock transaction valued at $50.13 per share.

The World Steel Association is cutting its forecasts for global use of the commodity by 1.8% this year, as China - the world’s biggest consumer of steel- has slowed down its growth.

Australia's Federal Skills Minister, Chris Evans, said Rio Tinto (LON and NYSE: RIO) should focus on local workers when filling its 6,000 mining jobs, in what is considered the largest recruitment campaign in the country’s history.

Newmont Mining Corp. (NYSE and TSX: NEM) reported a 9% increase in first-quarter profit to $561 million, or $1.13 a share, despite the ongoing troubles with its hindered $4.8 billion copper-gold project in Peru, the Conga mine.

China's push to diversify its supplies away from the big three iron ore miners is propelling development that will transform Canada's Nunavut/Labrador Trough into a world-class iron ore region.