A Canadian mining company operating the only gold mine in Ireland (Northern Ireland and the Republic) has received permission allowing it to expand underground.

5 million tonnes per annum pellet plant expected to start-up in 2018.

Workers at the Mount Polley mine in central British Columbia could be back on the job as early as July 1st.

A fast-moving wildfire in northeastern Alberta has forced the evacuation of staff at two oil sands facilities representing over 7 percent of Alberta's oil production.

Uranium investors are being urged to exercise caution in the short term due to three events which could affect the prices of the nuclear fuel and the companies that mine it.

A female employee was fatally injured in an accident at an underground gold mine in Ontario over the weekend.

A doubling of mill processing capacity at the CSH Gold Mine in Inner Mongolia is credited for a 51 percent increase in gold production at China Gold International Resources Corp. (TSX:CGG) in the first quarter.

Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) is reportedly selling its Pacific Aluminum business - a group of smelters in Australia and New Zealand - in a deal potentially valued at $1 billion.

Barrick Gold (NYSE, TSX:ABX) has exited a joint venture agreement to develop a property in Nevada, citing budgetary constraints.

The Peruvian government has deployed troops near the Tia Maria copper project, to deal with the deaths of a protester and a policeman over the past week.

A $2.1 billion proposal to build a uranium mine in the Canadian far north will not be proceeding anytime soon.

It may come as little surprise to those who understand the "fear trade" and the "love trade" in gold, as Frank Holmes of US Global Investors likes to say.