The first two months of 2015 failed miserably to dispel gloomy market conditions affecting the global mining industry, according to a study published Wednesday.

Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd (NLC) has inaugurated two new state-of-the-art Bucket Wheel Excavators with an operating capacity of up to 6800 cubic metres per hour for their Mines-II Project.

According to Timetric’s Mining Intelligence Center (MIC), Asian mines are transitioning towards digital mining, as demonstrated by continuing investment in design software and mine surveying.

Thursday will be the last time traders at four banks agree by phone twice-daily prices for bullion.

In this interview with The Mining Report, Richards discusses his outlook for oil, gold, vanadium, zinc and nickel, and profiles companies with projects that will see the light of day even in harsh price environments.

The move comes amid an ongoing collapse in commodity prices.

Murray Energy plans to expand its footprint in the U.S. coal sector's other geographical hot spot with a major $1.40 billion investment in Illinois Basin-producer Foresight Energy LP.

From South America to Africa, mining companies are throwing all that and more at communities to quiet growing opposition to controversial projects.

Singapore-based IIa Technologies, the world leader in Grown Diamond technology, today announced the launch of the world’s largest diamond greenhouse, a 200,000 square foot, state-of-art facility that has successfully conceptualised and developed a revolutionary, commercially-viable diamond growing process for colourless, high quality, Type IIa diamonds.