October 28, 2014

Freeport-McMoRan’s profit down 32% amid lower copper, gold prices

The U.S. largest miner by market value and revenue is also dealing with a strike threat at its Indonesia's Grasberg copper and gold mine, which recently resumed operations.

October 27, 2014

CHARTS: This is how much gold miners really put into their host countries

Members of the World Gold Council spent last year a total of $47 billion in countries hosting their mining operations.

October 27, 2014

China’s September gold imports hit five-month high

Total gold imports from Hong Kong totalled 91.745 tonnes, as the nation observed its annual holiday the first week of October, a time when millions of people travel and spend…

October 27, 2014

Anglo American ships first iron ore from Brazilian Minas-Rio project

Once again Cutifani delivers — freight from Minas-Rio leaves for China by year-end and within the latest estimated budget.

October 27, 2014

Down the black hole of coal mining in Poland

In his series “What Coal Left Behind,” photojournalist Matthew Busch looked to Europe — Walbrzych, Poland, specifically — to explore the human impact of harvesting fossil fuels, and the people…

October 27, 2014

BHP to sell US shale assets, limit annual capex to $14 billion

The world’s biggest miner unveiled details about how it expects to meet cost-reduction and productivity improvement targets.

October 27, 2014

This firm has more than half the copper in LME warehouses

That is worth around $534-$854 million, based on prices of $6,675 per tonne.

October 26, 2014

DRC gold production set to quadruple

The amount of gold produced by the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to be four times the amount produced last year, thanks largely to the opening of the…

October 24, 2014

Brazil’s Vale close to becoming world’s largest nickel producer

The miner beat estimates after logging a 16% jump in Q3 nickel production, taking total output of the metal this year to 201,400 metric tons.

October 24, 2014

Airborne Laser Mapping Reveals First World War Trenches in Derbyshire, England

High resolution laser scanned height models may have revealed previously unrecorded First World War practice trenches. The LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) laser data, captured by aerial mapping company Bluesky,…