US lab mines gold from discarded SIM cards

The South African economy has struggled over the past few weeks as reports of unrest in the country’s mines drove down the equities of most local miners.

Minera IRL Limited ( TSX:IRL) (AIM:MIRL) (BVL:MIRL), a Latin American-focused gold mining company, is pleased to announce the discovery of a significant […]

The Toronto-based company said the bid of 48 cents per share in cash represents a 37% premium at the close of Petaquilla's trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Instead of the lauded $6 billion in mining invested forecasted for 2013 earlier this year, SNMPE says the country’s sector will attract about $4 billion.

But South Africa's output continues to fall says the Economics Group’s.

Australian 2012 first half gold output has fallen 5% year on year while Chinese production gained 7%

Leading Citi analyst Tom Fitzpatrick expects gold to hit $2,500 in Q1 2013 while silver reaches record heights.

Scientific American provides a detailed, hypothetical response to the question which has no doubt crossed the mind of anyone involved with the mining sector - how long before the Earth's bounty of resources runs out?

Canadian explorer Mariana Resources (LON:MARL, TSX:MRY) said the latest set of drilling results from the Calandria Sur deposit in Argentina were “good” with 13 of 21 holes returning “significant intersections” of gold and silver.