BHP’s shareholders to vote whether firm should leave Australia’s top mining lobby group

For the first time in a decade, Australia's unemployment rate has hit 6%.

It was the third-largest coal ash spill in US history.

More so than other industry executives, mining execs believe that using mobile technology can be a life-saver.

There are very few figures coming out of China that you can rely upon, and this is particularly true of gold imports.

Lower prices for key products.

A 15% year-on-year drop in the average annual gold price in 2013 is forcing gold producers to revise the prices they use to identify ores that are profitable to mine,

Kentucky had the most metal/non-metal mining deaths, and West Virgina registered the highest number of coal mining deaths.

Husky Energy told analysts on Wednesday that the company had sold one million barrels of crude from its White Rose operation to an Indian refinery.

Other than the tax credit deferment, Canada's new budget doesn't include any significant changes for the country’s mining and metals industry.