November 2, 2016

Coal price rally bypassing US miners

As seaborne coking (up 227% year-to-date) and thermal coal (up 128%) continue to rally, decline in US domestic prices, exports resume long-term down trend.

November 1, 2016

Glencore to reopen yet another coal mine in Australia

The move comes only a few days after it resumed operations at Collinsville mine in Australia's Queensland state.

November 1, 2016

Vale may reconsider selling $10 billion in core assets — report

If prices for the commodities it mines continue to pick up, the firm must cancel plans to sell some of its best assets.

November 1, 2016

Copper price extends rally on China surprise

Chinese gauge of manufacturing activity "unambiguously upbeat, consistent with broader evidence that economy is in the midst of a cyclical recovery"

November 1, 2016

15 dead, several trapped in coal mining explosion in western China

China's coal mines continue to be among the deadliest in the world.

October 31, 2016

Aussie iron ore magnate Rinehart invests in UK’s biggest potash mine

Sirius Minerals’ York mine is expected to be one of the world’s largest in terms of the amount of resources extracted, generating an initial 10 million tonnes of polyhalite per…

October 31, 2016

Mining jobs finally picking up in Australia

This is probably the headline most people who have lost their jobs in the last two years were dying to read.

October 28, 2016

Peabody Energy in restructuring talks with lenders, stakeholders — sources

Peabody circulated a term sheet last week that implied the first lien debt would be impaired, prompting an organizational push, MINING.com has learned.

October 28, 2016

Chinese buy world’s largest mining project

Rio Tinto announces deal to exit Guinea and giant Simandou iron ore project.

October 27, 2016

Vale board OK’s sale of fertilizer unit — report

Most of the division’s assets will be acquired by Mosaic, the world’s largest producer of phosphate fertilizer.