Moroccans continue to protest against the “mines of death”

An unprecedented crackdown on corruption in India's mining industry, led by the Supreme Court and state-level agencies such as Karnataka's Lokayukta, coupled with rigorous enforcement of environmental norms is resulting in collateral damage to the economy, with plunging mining output leading to a fall in industrial production and GDP growth.

Two people have been killed and 10 others injured during a violent protest over a planned gold mine in eastern Indonesia. The victims were among nearly 1,000 people in Lambu village in West Nusatenggara province who were trying to stop the gold mining...

FLSmidth has been awarded a contract worth approximately USD 105m (approximately DKK 600m) from the Mongolian company, Mongolyn Alt (MAK) Group, to supply a greenfield copper concentrator for a mine some 500 kilometres from the capital city Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

The Japanese steelmaker expects its crude steel production in the January-March to be flat or slightly down on than that of the October-December period.

Gunmen fired at a helicopter carrying workers for the mining giant Freeport-McMoRan shortly after it took off Saturday from a town near the company’s huge gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia, a police spokesman, Colonel Wachyono, said.

Gold prices in India have been sliding all week, falling below the crucial $531.66 per 10 grams level for the first time in six weeks in New Delhi on Friday.

Global demand and prices for coal will continue to expand aggressively over the next five years despite public calls for reducing reliance on the high-carbon fuel as a primary energy source, said the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its first ever report about the commodity.

Australia edged closer to the creation of a new 10 billion Australian dollar (US$10.02 billion) port focused on exporting coal to Asia when the state of Queensland allocated land to units of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. BAM +2.16% and India's Adani Group for two terminals at Dudgeon Point on Wednesday.

An arbitrator has ruled that a "poison pill" rights plan erected by Ivanhoe to try and stop a Rio Tinto takeover, does not apply to the latter, leaving Ivanhoe vulnerable to a takeover next year.