Cecilia Jamasmie , Senior Editor

BHP Billiton shareholders have overwhelmingly voted in favour of the South32 demerger, a spin off that creates Australia’s third-largest mining company.

The environmental watchdog said the fine was calculated based on at least five infractions detected at the operation and the mine's facilities.

Miners in Canada’s most western province remain under pressure, as prices for some key commodities, mainly coal and copper, have continued to fall.

While oil production is expected to drop by 4% this year, potash output will jump 8%, BMO forecasts.

The mines ministry has missed an April deadline to ask courts solve the issue of whether companies may claim they meet black-ownership quotas if shareholders have sold their stakes.

Developing Mothae and Lemphane concurrently would allow Paragon to benefit from significant economies of scale, said Paragon Diamonds.

American geophysicist and Fulbright scholar, Stephen Haggerty, has found a new prickly, palm-like plant that seems to grow only on top of kimberlite pipes.

The 14-months long investigation ended on April 10, with BHP accepting the charge of “causing an offensive odour,” and the EPA releasing just a single tweet about it.

The sale would put an end to Goldman’s rocky involvement in raw-materials production.

It's estimated that the labour action generated about US$26 million in losses, forcing BHP to declare force majeure last week.