India’s Anil Agarwal succeeds with Vedanta Resources buyout

Some of the world's top oil producers have decided to abandon coal and focus instead on ramping up production and trading of liquified natural gas as a cleaner fossil fuel alternative.

The dramatic fall was led mainly by the iron ore and coal sectors.

The World Coal Association's chairman and Glencore executive, Mick Buffier, has called governments to increase investment in low emission technologies.

China continues to ratchet down.

One-quarter of the company's workforce.

A total of 60 banks committed to the financing, including 34 mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners.

Mining equities didn’t fare very well in Ernst & Young's most recent Canadian Mining Eye report.

The company says each of its six mines will be shut down for three weeks in the third quarter.

As of Wednesday night, there were 63 fires burning in the area and 13 were considered to be out of control.