AngloGold Ashanti flags higher H1 earnings, says asset sales are proceeding

Mostly shares-based deal will see Toronto-based Agnico Eagle acquire two highly prospective Mexican gold properties.

After massive weekly drop gold-backed ETF holdings come perilously close to 4-year lows, while hedge funds slash bullish bets on gold and silver.

Gold and silver prices are being repressed by central banks, but Sprott Asset Management's Charles Oliver argues that demand pressure will cause this dam to burst sooner rather than later.

CEO Chuck Jeannes says barring a major technological breakthrough global gold production probably peaked in 2013.

A triumph of the "Yes Scotland" campaign would have to be followed by negotiations with London over a raft of assets.

From the 5.8 million tons of copper produced last year, 1.2 million tons came from operations that are facing closure or conversion in 10 years.

First international conference about geosynthetics in mining begins Monday.

The United States has always had a love affair with the yellow metal. Here's a visualization of all of the key aspects of the U.S. gold history and mining.

A big corporate break-up à la BHP Billiton is definitively not in his books, he told FT.com.