BHP searching for assets with lessons learned during downturn in mind

Until Mick Davis pulls the trigger on X2's $5.6 billion, wishful thinking and unhealthy skepticism will pervade talk around private equity and mining.

The broad bottom is in - and well settled in, seemingly, with at least another summer of sideways markets ahead. But time isn't a bad thing.

At the end of January, the company announced it was placing the mine in care and maintenance, citing a commodity price crash, and earlier this month was forced to seek creditor protection.

When the ratio is falling as it is now, both silver and gold usually go up.

A new study shows the costs of mining for the red metal have steadily declined over the past three years.

The country's Environmental Court handed Monday a major victory to Barrick’s besieged Pascua-Lama gold, copper and silver project, straddling the border with Argentina.

They have given the expression "where there's muck there's brass" a whole new meaning.

Zijn's main interest in Ivanhoe seems to be the Kamoa copper project.

There are a number of challenges South32 is likely to face, including potential Black Economic Empowerment ownership concessions and power price hikes.