World’s ‘most beautiful diamond’ to go under Christie’s hammer

While the U.S. economy is hardly on solid footing, the fact remains that as the world’s biggest and most influential economy, the U.S. doesn’t have to be running optimally to keep the global economy chugging along.

If all goes as planned, junior miner Fortune Minerals will operate three projects in Canada in the foreseeable future.

France resurrects its 17th century economic policy, sets up state miner to explore for rare earths and gold focusing on francophone Africa and South America.

The Bundesbank, trying to build trust among Germans concerning the whereabouts of their 3,396 tonnes of gold, tries hard to lay the many rumours to rest.

SNL Metals & Mining reveals that while the minerals exploration sector recorded lower drilling activity, funds raised by the mining sector saw a near three-fold increase to $6.2 billion.

In the history of mineral exploration, the quest for uranium is really in its infancy.

The data shows that between 2000 and 2012, the earth lost far more trees than it gained.

Operations were halted for nine hours while police removed the protesters.

Visible uranium was seen in the first hole drilled into the Arrow target at the Western side of NexGen's Rook 1 project, which caused shares in the junior explorer to rise over 90% Wednesday.