Peabody Energy says it has started shipping coal from its new El Segundo mine in northwestern New Mexico.

Rio Tinto's record settlement for benchmark iron ore annual contract prices, announced this week, is akin to oil prices instantaneously moving up to $270 a barrel, or gold bullion jumping in a jiffy to around ...

Cameco Corp. said Friday that it has received the regulatory OK to pump the water out of its flooded Cigar Lake mine and inspect and safely secure the mine once it is dry.

The Chinese government and steel industry officials are looking at boycotting iron ore imports from BHP Billiton in order to pressurize the Anglo-Australian miner to rethink a somewhat steep price rise, ...

Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. announced Tuesday that it will look into buying a stake in a refinery project with a state-owned minerals development company in Vietnam.

Anglo, responding to a U.K. newspaper article saying politicians and investors have condemned Anglo for investing in Zimbabwe, said it condemned violence and human rights abuses in the country.

Barrick Gold Corporation has submitted an environmental impact statement to Corema of Chile's Region IV to expand the Punta Colorada wind-generating project.

Mining major BHP Billiton Tuesday gave its clearest indication to date that it will move away from annually priced iron ore contracts in favor of an external reference index-correlated pricing system after its ...

Posco , Asia's third-biggest steelmaker, said the record iron ore prices Rio Tinto Group won from Chinese steel-makers is a benchmark it will probably accept.

The annual battle to settle iron ore prices appears headed toward deadlock, but exchanges are quietly looking at developing contracts that could change the way the industry sets prices.

Rio Tinto today announced that it has lodged mining lease applications for its Bunder diamond project in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, India, which is a vital step in the development of what could ...

These are boom times for mining companies but the big profits are being eaten into not only by spiraling energy costs but suddenly rising prices for the explosives used to blast into the rocks.