US officials consider robots to prevent mine spills

John Hick, lead independent director of First Uranium Corp, described demands from Olma Investment Group and other dissident shareholders received by the company Tuesday as "unrealisic".

Barrick Gold posted a cool image gallery of  its Pascua-Lama project.

The government of El Salvador is warning that the future large-scale development of the Cerro Blanco mine in southern Guatemala will greatly endanger the quality of water found in the Lempa River, which supplies water not only to Guatemala but also to Honduras and El Salvador.

I'm not all that thrilled to be owning Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX) right now. While the company's stock has tended to be highly correlated to the price of copper, that correlation has slipped a bit. I'm guessing this has a lot to do with the violence and labor disputes at the company's Grasberg mine in Indonesia.

The LA Times had a feature story on the weekend centred around venture capitalist David Badner, who is buying up defunct gold mines in Colorado in hopes of capitalizing on the high gold price.

For many years now gold and silver -by its pattern of following gold wherever it goes- have been treated by traders, investors and central banks as a 'counter to the U.S. dollar' and quite rightly so; this definition, however, applies primarily to the long-term value of the dollar and not simply to the daily gyrations of the dollar's exchange rate.

A meeting of top South African mining stakeholders is to take place in Midrand involving mining companies, trade unions and government with the intention of finding a consensual way forward for the country's key mining industry.

"Space is big. Really Big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely, mind-bogglingly big," as the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy once noted. About the only thing nearly as big, it seems safe to say, are today's hopes of making money exploring space.

Australia’s decision to grant first ever right to hire foreign workers at the Roy Hill project in the Pilbara on Friday has sparked heated critics by local unions and the mining community.