BHP takes $1.8 billion hit from US tax reform

The government of Canada's British Columbia, has hit the pause button on a high-grade anthracite coal mine proposed by Fortune Minerals Limited in the northwest part of the province.

It won't announce its verdict on the matter until an unspecified later date.

The latest battleground for U.S. President Barack Obama’s so-called war on coal isn’t even in the lower 48 states. It’s across the border in British Columbia.

A triumph of the "Yes Scotland" campaign would have to be followed by negotiations with London over a raft of assets.

First international conference about geosynthetics in mining begins Monday.

A big corporate break-up à la BHP Billiton is definitively not in his books, he told FT.com.

The figure recently hit a seven-year low, rising concerns over how these cost-cutting measures may delay the country’s next generation of mines.

Here is one interpretation of how much is left on Earth.

After reaching a six-year low in its price and recent industry cutbacks to production, metallurgical coal is showing classic signs of a resource that is ready for a cyclical uptrend.