Australia ready to begin exporting uranium to India — Prime Minister

South Australian Premier, Jay Weatherill, has reproached the federal government for saying BHP could resume its Olympic Dam expansion within months, calling it a "cruel hoax."

Employment in the mining sector will rise by 7.4% over the next four years, with the oil and gas sector providing the largest number of new jobs

Decades-long ban on uranium mining in Virginia is proving very difficult to change.

Terrorism, regime instability and resource nationalism, are the main risks mining investors will face in 2014.

And which countries are least prepared?

The collapse of a leach tank at Australia’s Ranger uranium mine, operated by Rio’s subsidiary Energy Resources of Australia, was the second such incident for the mining giant in less than a week.

Anthony Roberts.

A crane attempted to block the hole, but was toppled when the tank gave way.

Resource industry employment expected to grow 11% in the next five years.