Rio Tinto to pay $3.3 billion for full Turquoise Hill ownership

The collapse of a dam at the Samarco mine complex in 2015 killed 19 people and severely polluted the Doce River with mining waste.

Socialist Pedro Castillo was closing in on victory in Peru's presidential election on Thursday, holding a slim lead of some 63,000 votes over conservative rival Keiko Fujimori.

Diamonds are a complicated business; more than almost any other resource sector, the pricing framework needed to be accurate. It wasn’t.

The agreement will likely see new restrictions on jade and placer mining in Tahltan territory.

After a 2020 saw a near shutdown of the diamond market for half the year as a result of pandemic-related travel restrictions, diamond prices have bounced back in 2021.

The disaster killed 270 people but the court action only benefits the families of 131 workers directly hired by Vale.

Daniel Jadue, the current front-runner in polls for November’s elections in Chile, wants to align mining rules with Peru, Argentina and Bolivia so they don’t compete for investments.

Latest drilling results how further high-grade extensions to the South East Crescent zone of the Havieron gold-copper project.

Tin deposits in the mining hub of Bangka-Belitung have been heavily exploited on land, leaving parts of the islands off the southeast coast of Sumatra island resembling a lunar landscape.