December 28, 2015

Mining projects worth $56 billion to come on stream in Peru beginning 2016

China is currently the top investor in the country's sector, pumping $19.2 billion into several copper, gold and silver projects.

December 22, 2015

Iron ore price predictions keep getting cut

Iron ore back above $40 on Tuesday, but Australia cuts official price forecast for 2016 to 20% below prediction made just three months ago.

December 22, 2015

Yamana Gold decides not to divest Brazilian operations after all

The miner said current market conditions are not supportive of a private placement on terms the company would find acceptable.

December 22, 2015

Death toll from Brazilian dam burst climbs — BHP

The miner raised the death toll from the catastrophic dam burst at a mine in Brazil last month to 17 from 13 and said there are two people still missing.

December 22, 2015

What to expect for 2016: Top predictions for the mining industry

Will commodities continue to “bump along the bottom” or is a recovery coming by mid-year? The jury is out.

December 21, 2015

The world’s 10 wettest mines

One of these mines gets more than fives times the rain of Canada's rainiest city.

December 21, 2015

Caterpillar to pay $74 million after found guilty of stealing trade secrets

England-based supplier Miller UK won a case filed five years ago, in which accused CAT of misusing classified information to produce its own coupler, rather than buying it from them.

December 20, 2015

BHP, Vale have assets frozen over Samarco damages

Two of the largest mining companies in the world are being held to account by the Brazilian government over a massive tailings dam rupture.

December 20, 2015

Mine-finder Tim Coughlin returns to gold exploration in Colombia

Tim Coughlin’s career arc is actually a circle. The 50 year old geologist did his PhD research on gold-system targeting methods in the Andes of South America.

December 18, 2015

‘Beaches’ from illegal mining scar Colombian Amazon

It's called a "beach", or "playa" in Spanish, but the swath of sand and polluted water in a remote part of the Amazon jungle in Colombia is not a place…