Cecilia Jamasmie , Senior Editor

South Australian Premier, Jay Weatherill, has reproached the federal government for saying BHP could resume its Olympic Dam expansion within months, calling it a "cruel hoax."

The potential is appealing. Peru holds13% of the world's copper reserves, 4% of gold, 22% of silver, 7.6% of zinc, 9% of lead and 6% of tin reserves.

Investors want federal authorities to examine the role of regulators and the stock exchange in OGX collapse.

In a country that celebrates “Oil Industry Nationalization Day,” the energy package approved last night has automatically become Mexico’s most significant and controversial economic reform since the NAFTA.

Cutifani said the firm has identified three "buckets" from which it plans to extract about $3.9 billion of extra earnings.

The world’s largest oil and gas firm predicts that by around 2025 gas will be the world’s second most-used fuel, only behind oil.

Terrorism, regime instability and resource nationalism, are the main risks mining investors will face in 2014.

First solar plant for the mining sector in the Coquimbo region will be inaugurated this Friday.

Whether the men were wearing safety harnesses is a significant part of the investigation that could take several months.

The collapse of a leach tank at Australia’s Ranger uranium mine, operated by Rio’s subsidiary Energy Resources of Australia, was the second such incident for the mining giant in less than a week.