After setbacks, Anglo American counting on turnaround for Minas-Rio mine

New doubts have emerged over world number one miner BHP Billiton's (LON/ASX/NYSE:BHP) $20 billion outer-harbour project at Port Hedland, Australia, with big names such as JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank saying they expect it to be axed.

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics and professor at Columbia University, has some sobering thoughts for Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique.

A study undertaken by the UN on the impact of the global resources sector on the world's indigenous communities is set to make the Australian mining industry an area of focus.

Some of Anglo American's top shareholders are demanding that CEO Cynthia Carroll be shown the door, according to a report by the Telegraph.

“We expect August to mark a low point in the current steel output cycle.”

Weeks after Quebec’s ruling Liberal party re-launched the province's asbestos industry with a $58-million loan to the Jeffrey mine, opposition leaders are calling the federal government to end what they call a "morally and scientifically indefensible" product.

The Canadian National Railway and the Caisse de depot pension fund manager are studying an infrastructure project for the Quebec-Labrador iron belt, which may be what Canada needs to become one the world’s major iron ore producers.

Shares of iron miner Bellzone were on the rise this morning after the company agreed to sell all of its share of output from the Forecariah mine in Guinea to commodities trading giant Glencore.

The president of the Qikiqtani Inuit Association is on a junket at the London Olympics as a guest of ArcelorMittal, which is in the final stages of getting approval for its giant iron mine on Inuit land.