Boart Longyear, the world's largest mineral exploration drilling company, had a record year in 2011 and expects more of the same in 2012 as the mining industry majors continue to demand drill rigs to meet their exploration capital expenditure budgets.

MINING.com editor Andrew Topf sits down with mining analyst Mickey Fulp, who topped the site’s list of recommended mining bloggers and newsletter writers.

The stock chart is enough to make every mining investor relations professional salivate. A gradual bumping along at around 25c a share, and then, like a sudden lurching of the needle on a seismograph, a massive, electrifying move upward.

Zambia Daily Mail reports that workers at the Kansanshi copper mine have gone on strike.

Consolidated Woodjam Copper, a tiny Canadian junior worth some $16 million on the Toronto exchange, rocketed 12.3% Thursday on news of a stellar initial resource estimate on the Woodjam property in northern B.C.

Hughie Elbert Stover, the former security chief at the Upper Big Branch mine, was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison for lying to federal agents and obstructing an investigation into an explosion that killed 29 miners in 2010.

Australian coal producer New Hope Corp will not put itself up for auction for more than $5 billion after a five-month sale process failed to come up with a deal, Reuters reported.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 29, 2012) - Coro Mining Corp. ("Coro" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:COP) is pleased to announce that Franco-Nevada Corporation ("Franco Nevada") and the Company have agreed to amend the term...

Western Potash has brought in one of the big guns in the mining industry to develop its Milestone potash project in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Associated Press reports that two military planes laden with 17 tons of silver and gold coins recovered from a sunken Spanish galleon have touched down in Madrid.

Hughie Elbert Stover, the former security chief at the Upper Big Branch mine, was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison for lying to federal agents and obstructing an investigation into an explosion that killed 29 miners in 2010.

Molycorp, the company in the process of expanding and modernizing a mine and processing plant closed down in 2002, this week announced the sequential start-up of its Project Phoenix rare earth manufacturing facility.