Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell Monday, as the World Bank lowered growth forecast for East Asian economies and uncertainty over this week's eurozone meetings pushed the dollar higher.

Four people were killed when a hopper wall collapsed in a mining company in east China's Anhui province Sunday morning, local authorities said.

GABORONE, July 1 (Xinhua) -- A worker trapped during wall collapse in Jwaneng diamond mine in Botswana is found dead as the rescue team discovered the body later on Saturday. Debswana Diamond Company's spokesperson Esther Kanaimba-Senai told Xinhua on...

Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell on Monday as French and Greek elections held over the weekend cast uncertainty on the future of Eurozone austerity measures.

Mirny Mine, the largest open pit diamond mine in world, is located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia

Australian iron ore mining company Fortescue Metals Group announced on Friday it had signed a land access agreement with the Njamal People for the North Star project in the Pilbara in Western Australia.

Three people who were believed to be responsible for a deadly coal mine blast in central China's Hunan Province late October were arrested Sunday. The three people were in charge of safety, production and overall management of the state-owned mine.

China has gained the right to explore a polymetallic sulphide ore deposit located in the southwest Indian Ocean over the next 15 years.

Twelve miners were trapped in a coal mine that caved in in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, local authorities said Friday.

BEIJING, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's crude steel output increased 10.6 percent year-on-year to 469.28 million tonnes in the first eight months, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The growth rate was 4.7 percentage points

BEIJING, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- A national energy-saving campaign involving over 1,000 companies managed to save equivalent to 150 million tons of coal from 2006 to 2010, China's top economic planner said Sunday. The companies that consumed half the energy

BHP Billiton is confident about sustained growth in China despite the worldwide market turmoil, Chairman of the world's biggest miner said on Wednesday. Speaking at a business lunch in Sydney, BHP Billiton Chairman Jacques Nasser said the global market turmoil has not changed the company's view of sustained growth in China. China buys about 30 percent of BHP's exports, and Nasser says the company is positive about China's future.