Explorers frustrated with waiting times for permits in B.C., the Territories

The Chinese economy is likely to land softly, rather than with a jolt, with growth forecast at 8.2% this year and 8.6% in 2013, according to The World Bank.

David Suzuki Foundation says Quebec, Ontario and B.C are "Very Good" regarding climate initiatives while Alberta and Saskatchewan rank as "Worst".

Indonesia wants to have its mining cake and eat it too, as the country, one of the world's largest exporters of copper and coal, will speed up a tax on mining exports, the industry minister Mohamad S. Hidayat told Reuters today.

While gold's primary use these days is a hedge against Europe going belly up or paper currency becoming debased, researchers at MIT found that a little gold added to copper can also act as a strong catalyst and convert carbon dioxide into methane or methanol.

Overall, only the stock indices of Spain and Portugal's top companies fared worse than Toronto's S&P/TSX-60. But in the group of resource-heavy exporting countries Canada's stock market came in stone last.

March 2012 broke all the hot weather records in the USA. It was the warmest month in the eastern two-thirds of the USA since records, going back to 1895, were kept.

The $2.6 billion Qatari investment could provide Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg the necessary backing he needs to push through the deal which many Xstrata shareholders say sell them short.

It hasn't been long since Caterpillar Inc looked like the typical resident of the Rust Belt. Having misjudged how deep the U.S. economy would decline, the world's largest maker of construction machinery reduced its workforce by 33,000 people worldwide in 2009, closed plants and posted lower profits.

This video by mining equipment manufacturer Job Global, more educational than promotional, gives an excellent overview of longwall, versus room and pillar underground coal mining.