Energy crisis, bottlenecks blunt metal rally windfall for miners

Miner will pay a special dividend worth $4 billion, or $2.43 cent a share, as it recorded its highest annual underlying earnings in the last five years.

The world's second largest miner has confirmed an "exciting" copper find at its Winu project, in the Paterson Range in the East Pilbara.

The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), a London-based industry group representing 27 companies, is setting an independent panel of experts to develope a global standard for tailings facilities to be enforced to its members.

The Canadian province is resource-rich, and home to Vancouver, the mining junior capital of the world.

The company has only good things to say about the proposed changes.

Some media reports indicated that Newcrest, as part of the deal, would be interested in buying Newmont's Australian assets.

Freeport is "comfortable" with engineering designs in place at existing dams.

Researchers say fauna tends to be under-recognized in assessments of restoration success.

Headlines are echoing the shift toward the Yukon’s second gold rush.