Peruvian presidential front-runner Alejandro Toledo said on Wednesday if elected he would talk with extractive industries about possibly introducing a tax on windfall profits as commodities prices surge. Toledo, who in his first term from 2001 to 2006 helped lure billions in foreign investment to Peru, said voters need to see concrete benefits from mining, oil and gas activity.

Institutional shareholders in Riversdale Mining are moving toward backing global miner Rio Tinto's sweetened A$3.9 billion takeover offer for the Mozambique-focused coal miner, Riversdale's chief executive said on Thursday. Rio Tinto raised its offer to A$16.50 a share on Thursday in a final bid to woo key shareholders who have held up the deal, and extended the offer for a third time, to April 1.

China's move on Kalahari Minerals could flush out other bidders for the uranium miner but even long-term suitor Rio Tinto may balk at getting into a bidding war with such a formidable foe.

Lake Shore Gold (LSG.TO) expects to double the size of its gold resource over the next 12 months and aims to produce about 300,000 ounces a year of gold by 2013, said one of the junior miner's top executives on Tuesday. "We don't think it's unreasonable to think that we may have found a new century of gold mining in a century-old mining camp," said Mark Utting, Lake Shore's head of investor relations.

Chinese companies wanting to invest in Australian resource firms have reassessed how they approach deals, and tensions over the last few years have evaporated, Australian Resources Minister Martin Ferguson said on Wednesday.

Major gold shops in the Vietnamese capital, which double as money changers have reportedly stopped dealing in dollars, as local authorities step […]

US President Barak Obama’s recent enthusiasm for powerful vanadium-reliant fuel cells is merely the latest in a buzz around the metal that […]

Antofagasta will pay a special dividend of 100 cents a share, the Chilean miner said on Tuesday as it posted a jump in full-year earnings on higher copper prices and production. Earnings per share rose to 106.7 cents, from 67.7 cents, as revenue grew 54.5 percent to $4.58 billion.

Copper Canyon Resources is getting more for its Copper Canyon property along with a spin-off company to develop its other exploration assets.

ArcelorMittal, Vale and Xstrata are among six bidders short-listed to develop Mongolia's Tavan Tolgoi mine, the world's largest untapped coking coal deposit, Mongolia said on Monday. U.S. coal miner Peabody , a consortium of Chinese energy firm Shenhua and Japan's Mitsui & Co , and a separate consortium of Japanese, South Korean and Russian companies are the other preferred bidders, said Erdenes MGL, the government body which controls Tavan Tolgoi.

Big Blue gold project (Ramelius Resources (ASX: RMS) + Marmota Energy Limited (ASX: MEU) earning 70%) Marmota Energy Limited (ASX: MEU) is pleased to announce drill testing of the Big Blue gold project in Nevada has commenced ahead of schedule. On the

Russian firms produced 7.53 tonnes of gold in January, 12.4 percent more than in January of 2010, the Gold Industrialists' Union industry lobby said on Saturday. The union expects gold production by Russia -- the world's No. 5 producer -- to rebound to 205-207 tonnes this year after it fell 1.4 percent last year to 201.3 tonnes.