Cecilia Jamasmie , Senior Editor

Mines minister Christopher Yaluma said reducing royalties below the recently revised 9% would make underground mining more cost effective.

A World Gold Council report shows the sector's contribution was greater than the GDP of over 150 different countries and larger than the total value of global overseas aid in recent years.

To the non-expert eye they may seem a set of mirages, but these turquoise-purple-pink visions are what ground-level potash ponds look like near Arches National Park.

The Canadian rare earths junior is appealing a Moscow court decision of Moscow City Arbitrazh Court of not allowing it to obtain a sum related to the loss of its Kutessay II mine.

Some of the world's top oil producers have decided to abandon coal and focus instead on ramping up production and trading of liquified natural gas as a cleaner fossil fuel alternative.

The sale would be one of the largest of a U.S. gold mine since the price of the precious metal began falling in 2013.

Gems founds in fragments of the Almahata Sitta meteorite were formed in an unknown planet that existed when our solar system was just forming, researchers say.

The dramatic fall was led mainly by the iron ore and coal sectors.

Skipping the loan repayment could lead to the U.S. rare earths miner bankruptcy.

The study, commissioned by Nautilus Minerals, shows seabed copper mining may cause less disruptions to the environment and local communities than terrestrial operations.