Freeport Indonesia to shift to all-underground mining by 2022

Zinc prices will continue to gain in 2015, but all bets are off if a not unlikely stockpile shock panics buyers.

The discovery — located approximately 95 km northwest of Cusco— contains both light rare earth elements (LREEs) and heavy rare earth elements and metals (HREEs).

Game-changing disruptive technologies or sustainable end-user agreements are what companies need to succeed and he shares some likely names in the cobalt, lithium, nickel, graphite—even uranium—spaces in this interview with The Mining Report.

Move will leave up to 12,000 jobless and it is likely to sour the already fractious relationship between the government and mining companies.

The move aims to expedite the processing and sanction of pollution cases.

Whereas total returns for the S&P 500 Index and 10-Year Treasury bond stayed relatively stable throughout the year, commodities and the U.S. dollar both made an incredible about-face starting around late June, early July.

The deals that were and those that failed. Here is MINING.com’s shortlist.

Some of the most popular experts featured during the year and some thoughts you might want to consider as you prepare for 2015.

Over the past 30 years, there have been four major bear markets in the junior resource equities sector.