Rio Tinto forges ahead with Simandou, the world’s largest mining project
The massive Simandou project, in Guinea, is considered the world's biggest untapped iron ore deposit.
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Australian company plans coal mine in Poland
Australia's Prairie Mining has confirmed its intention to open a coal mine in southeast Poland by 2023, saying it was confident the $632 million (558 million euro) project would be profitable, a report said Monday.
Mining deals plummet in value as commodities bust continues
A new report by accounting firm Ernst & Young has found that the value of deals globally plunged by 45 per cent over the year to March to $US3.3 billion ($4.5 billion) in the first quarter of 2016.
Correction or final push higher?
Despite maintaining an overbought condition and despite the recent bearish posture of many sector pundits, the gold stocks have yet to correct more than 11%.
ETF pile-on continues as gold gains for second straight day
Gold bugs continued to pile into gold ETFs on Monday, as the yellow metal gained for a second straight day.
China’s ICBC buys giant London gold vault from Barclays
The deal, due to close in July, will make ICBC Standard the only Chinese bank to operate a vault in London.
Infographic: Weird world currency
We took a look at some of the weird and wonderful things that have been used as alternatives to money around the world, some of which are still in use today.
Getting a heartbeat on British Columbia miners
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) has recently released their 48th annual British Columbia Mining Report.
Australia’s geoscientist employment slump enters its third year
Employment prospects for Australia’s professional geoscientists deteriorated even further in the opening quarter of 2016, driven down by mining’s negativity and dashing hopes for an improvement in the geoscientist employment situation.