Federal investigators believe a West Virginia miner was electrocuted last week when he cut a live cable.

Rio Tinto Group, fending off a $189 billion hostile bid from BHP Billiton Ltd., will expand capacity at its Kennecott U.S. copper unit by 20 percent and more than double the life of the Bingham Canyon mine.

Upgrades to a conveyer in the second half will boost refinery capacity to 327,000 metric tons a year, London-based Rio said Friday. Capacity is currently about 272,000 tons.

Kenny Barbosa had a passion for fixing antique cars and drilling water wells, but the money the young father made mining gold kept him going underground.

Sichuan is one of China's main non-ferrous metal production provinces, the powerful earthquake disaster on May 12 made some zinc, aluminum smelter and mines be forced to stop production.

A 120,000 metric ton aluminum producer in China's Sichuan province halted output after suffering casualties when the country was hit by its strongest earthquake in more than half a century, an official said.

thyssenkrupp AG said that it would delay the opening of a Brazilian mill by four to six months, but a company spokeswoman said that delay would not push back the 2010 opening of the new $3.7 billion mill the ...

Zinc prices jumped more than 7 percent on Tuesday, boosted by a fall in supply from China after Monday's massive earthquake, while tin hit a record high.

At about 1 a.m. on Jan. 19, some of the heaviest rains in a century caused the Nogoa River in Queensland to burst its banks, sending 32 billion gallons of water into one of the largest coal mines in Australia.

The committee of creditors running Tucson copper miner Asarco LLC is evaluating bids from potential buyers who would take over the company and finance its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

A new wetland will be created near Farmersburg, Indiana. It's happening after an agreement between the black beauty coal mine and the environmental protection agency.

Brazauro Resources has entered into a Letter of Intent with Gold Fields Holding Company Limited, a subsidiary of Gold Fields Limited to acquire the Bom Jardim property consisting of approximately 22,700 ...