Major mining assets change hands after commodity rout

Scientists from France's Ecole Polytechnique have developed a remarkable new technology which extracts trace amounts of gold from industrial waste water.

Producing oil and gas without water is impossible

Just a one percentage point decline in oil production generates an immediate oil price spike of over 60 percent

Landfall expected Sunday night

Aussie miner Whitehaven Coal (ASX:WHC) has announced the indefinite suspension of operations at its Sunnyside mine near Gunnedah in New South Wales. […]

A prominent Indonesian businessman has warned foreign miners of the perils of investing in his own country over the next two years due to new laws which curb overseas ownership.

If you're spending $33 billion you want to do it as efficiently as possible.

Australia’s Federal Government has seen sunnier days as reports revealed Thursday it has not collected any revenue in the first three months of its much-debated Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT).

The lagging productivity of the Australian coal industry could render as much as a third of the sector's output unprofitable.