Caterpillar plummets after flagging tariffs-triggered high material costs

Mongolia may give up government shareholding in mining projects altogether.

The world's largest futures market operator will shutter almost all of its open-outcry futures pits by July 2, ringing the closing bell on a once-raucous tradition that has been in decline since the rise of computerized trading.

Pamela and Mary Anne Aden see value in gold and silver and share their four favorite vehicles for gaining exposure to the upside in natural resources that is coming on the heels of a volatile currency upset.

Banned from travel since 2012, three SouthGobi workers, a coal firm owned Vancouver's Turquoise Hill, are now going to jail for 5-6 years for tax evasion.

The mining industry employed more than 380,000 people in 2013, accounting for one in every 47 jobs in Canada.

In essence, we have to create things from scratch.

"It will definitely put a lot of marginal producers out of business."

Dr Doom explains why the predictions of "Austrian economists, radical monetarists, gold bugs, and Bitcoin fanatics" have been so "spectacularly wrong".

Embarrassment and financial harm.