April 2, 2013

$3 an hour while working holidays, overtime on an oil rig: companies face fines

Four Filipino workers are owed a total of $127,425.

April 1, 2013

Four miners that could make money at the margins—and one that probably won’t

Christos Doulis travels the world for Stonecap Securities looking for mining companies that can contain costs; companies that can't contain costs because of rising labor and energy bills are not…

April 1, 2013

INFOGRAPHIC: Uranium supply and uranium demand

Kazakhstan production just towers over the rest of the countries.

March 30, 2013

Construction of $9bn Roy Hill iron ore mine kicks off, no $2-a-day workers needed

The biggest Australian iron ore mine to emerge in decades would not employ any of the 1,700 foreign construction workers it had been allowed to import.

March 29, 2013

The curious case of the missing Chinese mining billionaire

Chairman of mining group Hanlong, Liu Han's disappearance also highlights the dangers faced by Western firms trying to do business with Chinese tycoons.

March 28, 2013

US lobby warns Pentagon against further dependence on Chinese rare earths

Governments around the world have become increasingly attentive to rare earths as their strategic value has become clearer.

March 28, 2013

Australian mining service companies in dangerous decline

Central bank warns the national economy is also threatened.

March 27, 2013

A tale of two ‘doomsdays’: gold and the global economy

Two doomsday scenarios.

March 27, 2013

INFOGRAPHIC: Mining sector has second largest gender pay gap

The largest wage gap was in construction.

March 26, 2013

Ten mining experts you should follow on Twitter

MINING.com's first 'Twitter Mining Top Ten' list.