South African police ‘lied over shootings’ in Marikana mine A commission of inquiry has evidence that shows police falsified or withheld documents and gave false accounts of events. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 19, 2013 | 5:56 pm
$35 million expected for this egg size ‘perfect’ white diamond The flawless 118-carat white gem goes under Sotheby’s hammer in Hong Kong on Oct. 7 Cecilia Jamasmie | September 19, 2013 | 4:18 pm
Peabody Energy’s Bear Run coal mine threatened by ruling Indiana judge ruled the fully impact of coal waste from its Bear Run coal mine, east of the Mississippi River, was inadequately assessed. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 19, 2013 | 3:04 pm
Canadian Batero Gold president and CEO leaves the firm Momentarily replaced by senior vice president and COO, Darryl Lindsay. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 19, 2013 | 1:52 pm
Australia’s largest open cut zinc mine closing in 2016 Remediation at Century, the world’s third largest open cut zinc mine, is expected to take 120 years. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 19, 2013 | 10:57 am
Rio and Chalco abandon bid for $20bn bauxite deposit in Australia The move surprised investors, especially since Chalco had previously held the lease and was willing to develop the resource. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 18, 2013 | 9:11 pm
Silver breaks into the memory storage market Developing technology know as Resistive Random-Access Memory (RRAM or ReRAM) has embraced silver. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 18, 2013 | 5:29 pm
US energy boom leadership jeopardized, larger shale oilfields found New found formations potentially hold seven times the amount of recoverable oil located in the US and Canada together. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 18, 2013 | 4:13 pm
Shareholders want fresh blood on Barrick Gold’s board "Munk and the board need to change," they say. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 18, 2013 | 2:22 pm
Canada to boost support for mining, but faces challenges The government is fine tuning details of an aggressive campaign to promote Canada’s mining sector abroad, and so redirect trade spending and foreign affairs to core economic interests. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 18, 2013 | 12:00 pm
