BHP searching for assets with lessons learned during downturn in mind

The Denver-based potash miner is placing its West facility in New Mexico in "care and maintenance” beginning July.

Strategic shift comes as the world's biggest miner tries to regain investors' confidence.

It’s home to just a half-million people, but the country is not thinking small when it comes to the future of mining.

Vale’s results for the first three months of 2016 makes it the best-performing major iron-ore miner so far this year.

The niobium and phosphates division, which consists of mines, plants, processing facilities, chemical complexes and deposits, was one of Anglo’s more profitable businesses.

The miner has scaled down the project and it now aim to produce 1.3 million tons of potash a year, down from the 4 million tons originally planned.

Despite the dilemmas in recent years, which continue to persist, emerging trends in the mining industry may offer solutions — or at least opportunities for improvement industry-wide.

Mick Davis's private equity firm not on shortlist featuring Vale, Mosaic and Eurochem for $1.5 billion phosphate and niobium operations in South America.

Confidence returns to mining sector as announced capital outlays surge to $108 billion – greenfield project spending up three-fold in first quarter.