Draft bill says list in Harare if you want to mine in Zimbabwe

Deal should be exempt from Harper's new foreign investment rules due to PetroChina's minority stake

Mining, not drugs, main income source for the revolutionary groups in Colombia.

"You've got to blow very hard, Tim"

Chinese investment drive leaves pastoral community divided

Embattled Indonesian miner Bumi has decided to toss its lot in with the prominent Sumatran business dynasty

Now that elections are over, everyone is waiting for a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, but it's not so easy amid the atmosphere of protests that have even traditionally oil-friendly Texans putting up a fight.

As the year comes to a close and we prepare to extend our coverage further, we are revisiting our most popular expert interviews from 2012.

Spoils of the country's resources bounty will be better distributed as the mining sector enters an operational phase

A team of scientists have provided new insight into how ancient metal-ore deposits can be used to better understand the chemistry of the ancient oceans and, as a consequence, the early evolution of life.