April 7, 2016

Alberta shuts oil sands environmental monitoring agency

After report concluded the program was a “failed experiment.”

April 7, 2016

Workers at Freeport’s copper mine in Peru to down tools

About $22 billion worth of projects have been cancelled or delayed in Peru in recent years due mainly to anti-mining protests.

April 7, 2016

Illegal mining in Congo wiping out gorilla populations

Fewer than 3,800 Grauer gorillas still live in the wild, down from 17,000 in 1998 due mainly to illegal mining for coltan and other minerals, a report shows.

April 6, 2016

Ex-coal CEO sentenced to a year in prison over mine-safety conspiracy

The sentencing comes six years and one day after a fatal explosion killed 29 at Massey’s Upper Big Branch mine.

April 6, 2016

Vale cuts spending, management salaries

The iron ore and nickel giant has reduced its forecast for capital spending in 2016 to $5.5bn from $6.2bn previously.

April 6, 2016

Canadians to develop space mining tool

Deltion Innovations aims to design a drill that would prospect for water, ice and resources on the moon and beyond.

April 6, 2016

Osama Bin Laden was more than keen on gold

Documents recently declassified by the CIA revealed he was an avid gold investor and even predicted the price spike of 2010-2011.

April 6, 2016

NYU graduates seeking $11bn of gold in closed S. African mine

The 77-year-old mine contains gold resource of 9 million ounces.

April 6, 2016

The US Fed has $300bn in gold, new book reveals

Jim Rickards' latest book "The New Case for Gold" reveals that the Fed is holding massive amounts of gold at Fort Knox and West Point.

April 5, 2016

Copper miners’ game of chicken continues

New study predicts lowering of cost curve, marginal mines staying open at all costs will see oversupply persist and fifth year of copper price declines.