Climate Ground Zero says three activists are protesting at a Massey Energy office in southern West Virginia as they continue their battle to stop mountaintop removal coal mining.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection says a study shows longwall mining beneath Ryerson Station State Park caused cracks in a dam that forced officials to drain a popular lake.

Canadaa s Timminco Ltd said on Tuesday it was in talks with Icelandic power company Orkuveita Reykjavikur for a power supply contract for its planned silicon metal facility in Iceland, sending its shares up as much as 24%. Timminco, a silicon producer, said it has secured about US$1-million in convertible debt financing from Icelandic private ...

Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold Corp. says it's pushing ahead with plans to develop a massive copper and gold deposit in western Pakistan despite comments this weekend from the region's top government official that the Toronto-based company will be shut out of the project.

NEVER mind the science, follow the money. It is perhaps not well known that celebrated climate sceptic Ian Plimer is on several mining company boards - which earned him more than $400,000 over the past two years - and has mining shares and options worth hundreds of thousands of dollars more.

Global miner Rio Tinto Ltd has joined BHP Billiton Ltd in issuing caution over planned tax changes in Australia.

Friday, February 12, 2010 at 1:12 a.m. FRANKFURT - German steelmaker thyssenkrupp AG said Friday that net profit in the September-December period dipped 2.4 percent from a year earlier, as a drop in sales prices offset a rise in shipped volumes, but forecast that demand would continue to improve this year.

The plaintiffs in a legal dispute over a Nevada gold mining project have asked a federal judge in Reno to issue a full injunction and suspend the project.

Geoffrey York CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Last updated on Tuesday, Feb. 02, 2010 10:02AM EST A powerful wing of South Africa's ruling party is pushing for the nationalization of at least 60 per cent of the country's mining sector, sending jitters through Canadian investors in Africa's richest economy.

The company developing the Kensington mine near Juneau has discovered a new vein of gold.

The three unions representing workers involved in industrial action at Woodside's Pluto project are committed to overcoming problems at the site, they say.