Russian state corporation suspends $1.2 billion uranium project in Tanzania

Predictions of a hard landing in China will not pan out and global emerging market growth will accelerate in 2014 lifting demand for metals and minerals.

South Africa’s Richards Bay Coal Terminal shipped over 70 million metric tons last year, compared with 68.3 million tons in 2012.

Former regulations only targeted horizontal wells, the most common in the state.

Beijing wants toi reduce country's dependence on coal by at least 5% by 2017.

Brewing disputes with First Nations, claims of mercury pollution and increasing challenges for delivering oil to distant markets are only some of the issues oil sands producers will face this year.

But bubbly stock markets could see investors return to the sector as 2013's plunge in commodity prices make metals and minerals look cheap.

Officials warn of health risks from smoke that followed the explosion.

While 2013 will go down as the one when gold stop glittering and miners were forced to tighten their belts, our readers favoured a wide range of stories.

Many countries' foreign reserves accounts lost big in the gold price drop this year.