African Barrick Gold majority owned by Barrick Gold said it will drop its parent’s name when it unveils a new corporate identity in November.

China’s Shandong Xinfa Aluminum & Electricity Group is in talks with Guinea to invest $14 billion in a bauxite project abandoned by BHP Billiton said a government official with knowledge of the matter.

Gold and silver have value as hedges against a devaluation of the dollar, while platinum is viewed as an industrial commodity.

South Africa should consider drafting separate laws to regulate the fledgling oil and gas industry to encourage investment, Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi said.

The toxic time bomb set by China’s rare earths mining boom is set to boost the prospects for some of the $12 billion of projects being developed outside the world’s biggest supplier.

The smokestacks at Kosovo’s oldest power station tower over decaying buildings and a tangle of rusty pipes, polluting the Balkan countryside and posing the first test of the World Bank’s pledge to avoid coal.

Gold and silver futures headed for the longest rallies since August as economic concerns boosted demand for the metals as alternative investments.

ConocoPhillips sold Clyden package for $751 million

More than a thousand people protested against the project.

Plans to extend mining there beyond 2015.

At Israel’s southern Dead Sea pools, where visitors bob in water so dense with salt they float, David Zvida gestures toward hotels lining the coast.

Gold extended its longest slump in four years while silver tumbled to the lowest level since Sept. 2010.