World’s top miner BHP quits global coal group over climate stance

Global exploration spending dropped 26% in last year, compared with 2013, as several juniors threw in the towel and producing miners slammed the brakes on capital and exploration expenditure.

Hearings starting on Monday for a new uranium mine in Canada's Nunavut territory are attracting opposition from environmentalists and local First Nations who say the Kiggavik project impinges on important caribou calving grounds.

High-grade, shallow depth, wide mineralization.

Namibia and Botswana top the latest mining investment attractiveness index for the continent and move into top 25 worldwide.

In the second half of 2014 the businesses bound for South32 generated $5bn worth of revenue and almost $890m of earnings before interest and tax.

Chad Ulansky cut his teeth on Ekati, Canada’s first diamond discovery, but it’s uranium that he’s hunting for now in Canada’s frozen North.

The potash and oil-rich province was placed at the top of the Fraser Institute's annual rank of mining companies.

The draft terms of the reference for SA's royal commission into the role of nuclear power should investigate the costs of uranium mining, conservationists say.

Once fully operational, the Husab mine will have the potential to produce 15 million pounds of uranium oxide.