Mining equipment manufacturers are making improvements to machinery that they hope will deliver productivity gains for customers and counter falling orders.
Gold stayed on track for its biggest weekly rise in a month on Friday, supported by a drop in stock markets and comments from a Federal Reserve official that dampened talk the U.S. central bank is set to curb monetary stimulus.
Gold Fields La Cima SAA announced that Mr. Juan Luis Alfredo Kruger Sayan has resigned from his posts of Chief Executive Officer effective March 15, 2013
South Africa overtook India to become China's third-biggest iron ore supplier in 2012, while Australia strengthened its dominant position as the major supplier to Beijing, data from customs showed on Monday.
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.
