China to revoke over 1,000 iron ore mining licences amid pollution crackdown

Xstrata shareholders rejected the $220 million retention bonus plan by a resounding 78.4%.

A lot gloomier than any other Canadian chief financial officer (CFO) are those executives working for mining companies, reveals industry-specific data published Tuesday by GE Capital as part of its Bi-Annual Mid-Market CFO Survey.

In what shouldn’t come as a surprise for those following the recent events related to the touted and long delayed $66 billion merger between diversified miner Xstrata (LON:XTA) and commodity trader giant Glencore International (LON:GLEN), the Swiss company's shareholders have approved the deal.

BHP Billiton's (NYSE:BHP), the world's largest mining company, has not been successful in its quest to find a suitable successor to Marius Kloppers, as the South African approaches his sixth year as chief.

Novocastrian mining tycoon could face insolvent trading charges or personal bankruptcy proceedings over failure to make payment to Blackwood

Only three days after India’s auction for the 2G telecom spectrum ended in a fiasco with no bids, the South East Asian country is now talking about selling 54 coal mines.

Uranium-contaminated coal already a problem in Chinese north-west

Zetas cartel takes stake in Coahuila's coal

But petroleum products are up a whopping 44.1% from last year.