The spot market for copper is extremely tight with premiums over 3-month contracts touching 18-month highs and Indonesia's export ban adding uncertainty.

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation has given the Federal government 60 days to respond to claims that it hasn't been enforcing its own laws.

Vancouver's Augusta Resource Corp opened 18% higher on Friday after the release of a positive environmental statement on its Arizona copper mine.

Statement after annual planning meeting warns of "downward pressure" on the world's second largest economy and the need to take "bold steps" to reform industry.

Chinese coal mines are the 'deadliest in the world.'

Investors want federal authorities to examine the role of regulators and the stock exchange in OGX collapse.

In a country that celebrates “Oil Industry Nationalization Day,” the energy package approved last night has automatically become Mexico’s most significant and controversial economic reform since the NAFTA.

Mikhail Prokhorov acquired Mercator Minerals through a friendly merger with his company Intergeo MMC.

Following an international tender, Metso and the industrial service provider Ferrostaal Industrieanlagen GmbH, Germany (Ferrostaal) have been awarded a joint contract to build a railcar dumper facility for the iron ore producer Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière (SNIM) in the harbor of Nouadhibou, Mauritania.