Process IQ, Orway Mineral and Perseus Mining receive METS Award for work at Ghana mine

Mick Davis hasn't spent a cent of his $6bn, but private money and non-mining players' share of M&A has already doubled in less than three years.

Steve Todoruk, a broker at Sprott Global Resource Investments Ltd., has been eyeing the next possible takeover. He believes he’s narrowed down the most likely targets.

American geophysicist and Fulbright scholar, Stephen Haggerty, has found a new prickly, palm-like plant that seems to grow only on top of kimberlite pipes.

Close to 200 miners at mines run by Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE:HBM) in Manitoba, Canada walked off the job over the weekend.

Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM) has sold its only mine in New Zealand, the Waihi gold mine, to OceanaGold (TSX, ASX:OGC), the companies announced last Thursday.

The miner had been trapped for over 40 hours while mining mercury at La Estrella.

Catherine Raw, from one of the UK mining sector's best known fund managers, is assuming as the company's Business Performance Executive Vice President.

If the miner buys any assets this year, it would be Rio's first acquisition in about three years.

The nation signed a complex deal with Citibank to swap $1 billion in cash for about 1.4 million ounces of its gold reserves.