Nevada copper expects full-scale production in Q4

In a bear market for junior miners, exploration capital can be hard to come by.

Glencore has slashed spending for this year by up to $US1.4 billion amid a rout in commodity prices, and will spin-off its stake in the unwanted South African platinum producer Lonmin inherited in its merger with Xstrata two years ago.

Big new megafactories coming in 2017.

It's early, but all indications show evidence of multiple copper-gold porphyrys on the 26,000 hectare San Matias property.

Total of five executed.

Many are already likening the new Silk Road undertaking to the Marshall Plan

If a junior mining company is in a dire enough situation, they may hit the “reset” button and rollback their stock.

Mongolia may give up government shareholding in mining projects altogether.

The world's largest futures market operator will shutter almost all of its open-outcry futures pits by July 2, ringing the closing bell on a once-raucous tradition that has been in decline since the rise of computerized trading.