No pot of gold for locals as China mines Sierra Leone

Vancouver-based firm's three Chinese mines could fetch up to $1.5 billion ahead of a Hong Kong listing.

Gold price drops to lowest since April 2010 and is now set for the first back-to-back annual drop since 1998.

British Columbia's Energy Minister Bill Bennett wants to show Alaskans why the province’s resource sector is not a threat to the state's environment and salmon fishery.

South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources has finally approved the miner's Platreef platinum project.

This video and accompanying infographic from last year explains the basics of raising capital in the mining exploration sector. It covers: private placements, warrants, hold periods, and much more.

Even with gold prices dropping to near 4-year lows, buyers in China - the world's leading market - aren't tempted, suggesting prices have further to fall.

London-listed gold miner Petropavlovsk is fighting for survival after it embarked on an expansion programme that dramatically increased its debts just as gold’s bull run was ending.

The ROI's in the hundreds of percents

As if tanking gold prices weren’t enough bad news for Canadian junior gold mining and exploration companies, now one of the more promising gold-mining nations in Africa is in a state of turmoil.