Danakali secures financing for power plant at vast potash project in Eritrea

If prices for the commodities it mines continue to pick up, the firm must cancel plans to sell some of its best assets.

Sirius Minerals’ York mine is expected to be one of the world’s largest in terms of the amount of resources extracted, generating an initial 10 million tonnes of polyhalite per year.

Miners have to look at debt, private investors and alternative financing like pre-pays for growth capital according to new report.

Four employees at Agrium's Vanscoy potash mine spent six hours in an industrial elevator.

Most of the division’s assets will be acquired by Mosaic, the world’s largest producer of phosphate fertilizer.

Launched three years ago with a $5.6bn war chest, the fund once hailed as leader of a new wave of mining investment changes course.

While quarterly earnings beat analysts expectations, revenue fell short of estimates and CAT also lowered its full-year guidance.

The world’s largest heavy machinery maker has logged a 18% drop in global sales of machinery for the three-month period ended in September.

He envisions people living in big glass-carbon fiber domes on the surface, with additional areas mined out below the surface by robots for "industrial" uses.