Rio Tinto Alcan is preparing to restart idled production capacity at its Vaudreuil alumina refinery, the company said Thursday.

Although uncertainties still remain for the economy, China's stimulus plans have won applauses at the Summer Davos forum, where about 1,400 world business leaders and policy makers gathered to find ways to relaunch world economic growth.

Harry Winston Diamond Corp. says a new operating plan for the Diavik diamond mine in Canada's Far North would see a winter shutdown cancelled and 2010 delivery ramped up to 7.5 million carats of diamonds or more.

These are not friendly times for the coalfields of southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia.

China's next iron ore pricing negotiation is now in jeopardy after Rio Tinto suspended this year's talks with Chinese steel mills without agreement just two months before the 2010 round was due to begin.

U.S. stocks advanced on Tuesday on an uptick in corporate deal activity while the weak dollar led to gains in commodities, lifting shares of oil and mining companies.

Coal producer Consol Energy plans to resume longwall mining at its Blacksville No.

Nevada state environmental protection regulators say they're nearing an agreement with Yukon-Nevada Gold Corp.

John Pandelios, an industrial engineer who worked at Weirton Steel for more than 31 years beginning in 1948 until his retirement in 1980, put together a timeline of the Weirton mill highlighting events from its founding in 1909 as the Weirton plant of the Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate Co., which was founded by E.T. Weir, James Phillips, David M.

Newmont Mining Corporation is pleased to announce that its Boddington mine in Western Australia successfully produced its first gold and copper concentrate, processing approximately 100,000 tonnes of ore during the first two weeks of August.

A contract security employee at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s Grasberg mine in Indonesia was shot and killed Sunday, the second deadly act of violence to occur near the Phoenix-based company's massive foreign complex in two days.

As of May, the workforce at U.S. Steel's Canadian operations had shrunk to only 23 per cent of the number of workers it promised to employ when it took over the former Stelco, according to documents filed with the Federal Court of Canada and obtained by The Canadian Press.