Gran Colombia buys stake in Western Atlas, says production up 7% this year

Number one Barrick Gold's output drops in 2014, but fellow Canadian firm Agnico Eagle adds 30% to production ounces.

It is a wonderful thing for miners to increase production and cut costs, says private investor Olivier Tielens.

But it is going ahead with a thorough review of permits related to a proposed processing plant at the site.

Within the Earth’s crust, there is 1 gram of silver for every 12.5 tonnes of earth (27,600 lbs). This makes silver very difficult to find. To understand silver supply, we must first discover how economic silver deposits form.

Namibia and Botswana top the latest mining investment attractiveness index for the continent and move into top 25 worldwide.

The Buffet indicator shows how unsustainable is the stock market rally. $18 trillion in easy Fed money shows how undervalued gold is.

In the second half of 2014 the businesses bound for South32 generated $5bn worth of revenue and almost $890m of earnings before interest and tax.

Canada's J.D. Irving Ltd. hopes to build a massive open-pit copper and gold mine at the state's Bald Mountain.

Industry fears too many juniors chasing too few dollars will equal too few new mines.