Workers at BHP Billiton Ltd's Escondida mine in Chile, the world's biggest copper mine, have voted to reject a company wage offer and go on strike.

They were said to be investigating a private Russian security company operating in CAR as well as Russia’s interests in the local diamond, gold and uranium sectors.

The Hope Diamond, a rare blue diamond that is one of the world's most famous jewels, has had a complicated history, passing through the hands of monarchs and bankers and heiresses and thieves. The geological history of blue diamonds is even more complex.

Company said first-half profit grew 12% to $4.42 billion, below the $4.53 billion forecast by analysts.

In a year of multiple milestones for Cat® trucks, Caterpillar announces the manufacture and delivery of its 50,000th articulated truck. Since the start of Cat-branded articulated truck manufacturing in Peterlee, U.K., in 1985, Caterpillar has become a leader in articulated truck design and manufacture.

The world’s automakers “don’t worry about lithium supply anymore” – Simon Moores.

Canadian microbreweries are facing a shortage of cans and higher costs, forcing some to cut beer production after the country imposed retaliatory import duties on U.S. aluminum imports in the busy summer season.

The main union at Chile's Caserones mine has rejected operator Lumina Copper's final contract offer and workers have approved strike action.

Despite President Donald Trump’s repeated assertions of its bright future, coal mining is a dying industry and the secret to a long life in this twilight era is accepting mortality.