South American Silver (TSE:SAC) stock shot up 17% in morning trading today on the Toronto Stock Exchange to $1.62 a share after the company announced the findings from its NI 43-101-qualified resource estimate of the company's Escalones copper-gold-silver project in central Chile.

Gold prices eased on Monday as a warning from Fitch Ratings that it may downgrade France and six other euro zone countries hurt stocks and the euro.

The miner has delayed the first shipment from its Marampa iron ore mine in Sierra Leone to January to allow it to use larger supramax sized vessels instead of handymax sized vessels.

If the uranium industry was hoping that China would be the tide that floats all boats, it will have to wait longer than expected.

It sounds like something out of a B movie trailer or if you're old enough to remember, an episode of Swiss Family Robinson.

The main road connecting Las Vegas and Reno could be rerouted near the central Nevada town of Goldfield to make way for something older than the Silver State itself: a mining boom.

A proposed new coal mine in Queensland is so massive it is likely to do more harm to the local economy than good.

Bloomberg reported that Billionaire Mr Ziyavudin Magomedov Summa Group won the right to build a RUB 44.3 billion section of a railroad to coal fields in East Siberia near deposits to be developed by Evraz Plc and OAO Severstal.

OAO GMK Norilsk Nickel, the world’s biggest producer of nickel and palladium, predicts demand for platinum group metals will rise as much as 5 percent next year, exceeding increases of as much as 3 percent for copper and nickel, as the global economy avoids a slump as severe as that seen in 2008.