Metal prices, financing, exploration and assays are all up

BHP will in time set up similar facilities for its Queensland coal mines and at its Escondida copper mine in Chile.

Space mining start-up Planetary Resources President, Chris Lewicki, made more than one eyebrow rise Wednesday as he wrote in his blog that there are about $16 trillion worth of platinum waiting to be extracted in our Earth’s oceans.

Canada’s economy shrank 0.1% in August, the first drop in six months, driven mainly by depressed manufacturing and energy sectors, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.

An economic researcher from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says China must give up the breakneck growth rate it's maintained since the turn of the century

Rex Minerals (ASX:RXM) has released the prefeasibility study for its proposed copper project at Ardossan indicating that the mine would cost AUD$900 million to construct and generate $11 billion over its current mine life.

High wages and a shortage of skilled workers in Australia threaten AUD$200 billion in mining and energy projects according to the founder […]

Veteran precious metals expert Richard Russell says recent trends in silver stocks presage a major price surge in the neglected precious metal. […]

Romney could replace Ben Bernanke with a hawkish Fed governor and spell the end of quantitative easing.

The Alexandria-based company tried to pour cold water on the reports and said operations at the mine – the first modern gold mine to open in the North African country – were continuing as normal.