Rio Tinto ready for talks over Bougainville mine

A few years ago, there was a perception that private equity was going to come in and wash away the junior sector's worries about insufficient capital.

Glencore's Cobar in New South Wales and Chile operation Lomas Bayas could fetch anything between $500m and $1 billion.

After the best week for commodity prices in more than three years, sentiment towards metals and mining may finally be turning.

Zinc gets a bump.

47% of the industry is lossmaking at August copper price lows according to new report.

The approval will include “the same rights and the same level of legal and fiscal certainty provided under its contract of work,” the company said without elaborating.

Six people have been killed in anti-mining protests so far this year, including three at last week's clash between police and locals near Las Bambas copper mine.

Freeport-McMoran was up 9.97% on the news to $13.01.

Morgan Stanley sees a "sharp reversal" in commodities with prices rising nearly 20% by 2017 making mining stocks "historically attractive".