Investors with $10 trillion in assets pressure miners over tailings safety

The bill generally adds certain requirements to the application for conversion, most of which codify existing industry best practices.

Recently approved law allows large-scale mining, but locals oppose the project and demand plebiscite to settle the issue.

China's third largest steelmaker Wuhan Iron & Steel now also out of the running, leaving no serious bidders for pricey Iron Ore Company of Canada.

Iron ore and coking coal prices hover at 6-month lows on Wednesday as Chinese steel prices approach record lows and forecasts for output growth are slashed.

Despite record production figures, the world’s no.1 miner's shares dropped in the ASX today.

Study shows the market is expected to grow more than 8% a year through 2017.

Article published last year by a French newspaper, which said the magnate and his company had been part of a coup effort against Guinea’s current President, was based on fake documents.

First spacecraft to land in a comet wakes up from 10 years of hibernation.

Selected names will be etched on a microchip aboard the spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in only two years.