First US coal plant in years opens where no options exist

Beijing has very ambitious 2020 growth targets. A new survey finds Chinese executives are much more confident than the rest of the world about hitting them.

In this interview with The Energy Report, he explains that electric utilities will begin to run short of fuel even before 2020, when 33 additional reactors are expected to come on line.

INTERACTIVE INFOGRAPHIC: Don't just think truck drivers – 38% of first line mining supervisors' activities can be automated using CURRENT technology.

Will commodities continue to “bump along the bottom” or is a recovery coming by mid-year? The jury is out.

The expansion work will require dredging 1.1 million cubic meters of seabed near the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

Hong Kong's CGN Mining buys 20% stake in Kelowna-explorer for $82 million and agrees to uranium offtake from Triple-R project in Saskatchewan.

England-based supplier Miller UK won a case filed five years ago, in which accused CAT of misusing classified information to produce its own coupler, rather than buying it from them.

Debswana, a 50/50 joint venture between De Beers and the government of Botswana, is set to close its Damtshaa mine and scale down production at Orapa.

A look back at mining and metals in 2015 through MINING.com's most popular stories of the year.