Iron ore price slump hurts development in region.

Gold prices eased nearly 1 percent on Monday, pulling back from the previous session's 6-1/2 month high, as the dollar rose and assets seen as higher risk, like stocks, the euro and other commodities like crude oil, retreated.

Suncor Energy Inc has begun a planned six-week maintenance turnaround on a vacuum tower for an upgrader at its northern Alberta oil sands operations, Sneh Seetal, a spokeswoman for the company, said on Friday.

Europe's No.2 copper producer KGHM said on Tuesday its recently acquired Canadian unit Quadra FNX had returned to profit after the first seven months of the year.

The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) opened its first laboratory in Israel on Monday, giving a boost to the country's diamond industry, one of its largest export earners.

South Africa's gold mining companies have been hit by union demands for wage hikes but the industry has little room to budge as current collective agreements do not expire until the middle of next year, the country's chamber of mines said on Monday.

The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which is used to track rates for ships carrying dry commodities, rose marginally on Friday […]

Shanghai steel futures stretched their losing streak to a 10th day on Friday, hitting a record low and giving steel producers more […]

Unidentified gunmen attacked the airport in the Congolese mining town of Lubumbashi early on Wednesday, killing at least one soldier, but government forces repelled the offensive after several hours of fighting, police said.

A coal train ploughed into a farm truck at a level crossing in South Africa on Friday, cutting it in half and killing 24 workers on their way to pick fruit - the latest tragedy to hit the country's ageing rail network.

Vale, the world's second-largest mining company, sold its ferromanganese plants in Europe to Glencore International for $160 million, as it seeks to help finance core investments in iron ore, coal and nickel.

Australia's northern Queensland state plans to challenge the federal government's mining tax in the High Court, saying the tax unfairly discriminates against the resource-rich state, The Australian newspaper reported on Monday.