Workers at Europe's largest coking coal miner Jastrzebska Spolka, Weglowa returned to work Monday after union leaders suspended a strike following a statement by the company's CEO that he would resign if they did so.

ENAMI, Chile's mining-development agency, will buy copper from small mines at above the market price to protect operations from closure.

The seaborne iron ore market finally gained Friday after a steady period of weakening, tracking a small flow of buying interest ahead of Chinese holidays and a slight boost in steel prices.

The US government said it will appeal a federal district court's March ruling that found Arch Coal's Spruce No. 1 surface mine permit in Logan County, West Virginia, was valid.

Precious metals production at the Sudbury, Canada, operations for Brazilian diversified mining giant Vale plummeted in the first quarter, the company said Wednesday.

Heavy rainfall in the last 48 hours has caused significant disruption at several coking coal mines in the Moranbah region of the Bowen Basin, in Australia's Queensland, market sources said Tuesday.

Russian steel and mining company Mechel has completed the 321 km rail track linking its Elga coking coal mine, which sits one of the world's largest coking coal deposits, to the main Siberian rail network, the company said in a statement late Wednesday.

Chile will produce 5.5 million mt of copper next year as new operations enter production, the country's national mining association SONAMI said Tuesday.

Deadly accidents at US surface coal mines in Ohio and Virginia have claimed two workers in the past two days.

India's leading aluminum and copper producer Aditya Birla Group confirmed Thursday that it has officially expressed an interest in bidding for Australian coal miner New Hope.