Cecilia Jamasmie , Senior Editor

Canadian miner Selwyn Resources (CVE:SWN) stocks were falling almost 17% this morning as the company said it was evaluating a smaller tonnage mine plan for its flagship zinc and lead project in Yukon, northern Canada.

Mining giant Vale said on Monday it will sell its coal assets in Colombia to CPC, a unit of Colombian Natural Resources, for $407 million.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held 12 hours of stacked hearings in Chicago on Thursday, allowing the public to express their opinions (mostly adulation according to The Huffington Post) about the proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants.

A second major physical iron ore trading platform, supported by major mining companies and Chinese steelmakers will launch this Wednesday, competing directly with China's new own platform in a race to create an industry price benchmark.

Australia’s decision to grant first ever right to hire foreign workers at the Roy Hill project in the Pilbara on Friday has sparked heated critics by local unions and the mining community.

Hoping to cash on the booming mining industry in Australia and the need for foreign workers, Corporate Travel Management (CTM) has announced a step into Australia’s growing mining industry with its new brand offering, Resource Travel Management (RTM).

Australia’s government announced Friday it will allow a new mine to hire about 1,700 foreign workers to alleviate a labour shortage threatening the resources boom.

An increasing demand for diamond jewellery coming from China could help precious stone producers to boost sales in the following months, hinted diversified miner Rio Tinto (LON:RIO) in a release summarizing key insights from a market research.

In what it seems to be the first casualty of the heated conflict between diversified miner Anglo American (LON:ALL) and its Chilean adversary Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer announced its CEO Diego Hernandez resigned late Thursday.

Zimbabwe's central bank threatened to freeze Impala Platinum's local account and ordered local banks to halt managing any of the company’s exports because it has “failed to comply with an order to bank locally,” state-controlled newspaper The Herald reports.