A hard bean, the guar, grown in India's most arid and hard scrabble region is a key ingredient in making hydraulic fracturing better.

Look no further than rail traffic totals to see that the US is ditching coal and embracing natural gas.

Dee Woo writes in the Business Insider that the Chinese government no longer has any policy options left, and it must start deleveraging.

Taking a hard look at your next roll of dimes could leave you with a nice tip.

Sunday Times reports (paywall) that BHP Billiton, which is shedding its non-core operations, is looking for a buyer for its Mount Nimba iron ore project in Guinea.

The UK government's great gold firesale in 1999 was an attempt to prevent a banking crisis.

In a Ted Talk, Sunni Brown profiles Malcom McLean, a bored truck driver waiting at shipping docks in New Jersey whose simple idea to speed up shipping transformed the modern global economy and changed the lives of every living person afterwards.

Gold is really lousy at compounding.

The Ohio Valley Coal Company plead guilty in U.S. District Court in Columbus to having spilled coal wastewater into a stream in Ohio.

China plans to diversify iron ore imports and increase the ratio from independent miners to 50%, according to comments made Wang Xiaoqi, vice-chairman of the China Iron and Steel Association.

Naguib Sawiris,an Egyptian mobile phone entrepreneur, is paying $492 million for gold miner La Mancha Resources (TSE:LMA).

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