China’s recent scrapping of small coal plants will avoid the release of as much as 11.4 million metric tons annually of climate-warming carbon dioxide, helping the country cut emissions for the first time in more than a decade.

Coal miners in South Africa who worked at a unit of Sasol and contracted lung diseases filed a suit seeking damages from the company, according to their lawyer.

The collapse in the market for Canada’s heavy crude below $30 a barrel last week is hammering home a harsh reality for the nation’s oil-sands producers: There’s no one to save them this time.

From South America to Africa, mining companies are throwing all that and more at communities to quiet growing opposition to controversial projects.

Freddy Bonjour, covered in yellow dust from head to toe, stands exhausted after a day using his bare hands and a shovel to dig for gold in eastern Central African Republic.

Mongolia’s dollar bonds and currency sank to record lows this month as a slide in commodity prices and a dispute with Rio Tinto Group over developing one of the world’s largest copper and gold mines kept foreign investors away.

Gold will extend losses this year as U.S. interest rates increase, providing an opportunity for investors to buy the metal to benefit from a rebound spurred by Asian demand, according to Barclays Plc.

A wave of cost-cutting in Canada’s oil patch is prompting bond investors to pick which companies will best withstand the collapse in crude prices.

South African commodity stocks fell the most in more than six years, with Anglo American (AGL) Plc leading declines, as global metal prices slumped.

Iron ore capped the biggest annual decline in at least five years as surging supplies from the world’s biggest producers outstrip demand growth in China, with the raw material dropping for every quarter in 2014.

The collapse in global iron-ore prices isn’t chasing Gina Rinehart away from the red soil of Western Australia that made her a billionaire.

Canadian oil producers are proving less resilient than their U.S. counterparts to plunging prices.