South Koreans are on course to buy a record amount of gold in 2015, worried that a meltdown in China's stock markets will destabilise South Korean equities and keen to replenish a traditional store of value in an era of low interest rates.

Recent volatility in the price of iron ore has interested traders of the crucial industrial metal.

"Options allow miners to put together more complex structures like zero-cost collars to protect revenues."

Consolidated Mining & Civil Pty Ltd (CMC) has acquired a Maptek Sentry monitoring system, primarily for use at Havilah Resources Limited’s Portia gold mine in South Australia.

U.S. President Obama has unveiled new rules designed to impose more costs on the battered and bruised United States coal industry.

The slump in the coal market has claimed another victim.

The Centre for Sustainability in Mining and Industry (CSMI) will once again be offering a range of insightful short courses from August – November 2015. Aimed at adding value to mining companies, government regulators and non-governmental organisations, the high-impact, practical nature of the courses also assists develop participants’ careers.

Vermeer’s T1255 is designed to cut through solid rock in large-diameter applications

London-listed Vedanta Mining (LON:VED) will be in court to defend itself against claims by hundreds of Zambian villagers that its copper mining operations polluted a water source and farmland.