MINING.com reported on how opponents and proponents of hydraulic fracturing were using videos and infographics to argue their case. Now a London jeweler, Ingle and Rhode, is taking on the Kimberely Process and using an infographic to explain why, according to the company, that the standard is not up to snuff.

Afghanistan is seeking aid from the Australian mining industry in the creation of a school of mines to help the recovering country exploit its vast natural resources, reports Chinamining.org.

[Afghanistan] Mines Minister Wahidullah Shahrani said, "Australia is a model for us". "The government of Australia has been very generous to help us with our technical capacity, give us scholarships for postgraduate programs in the mining area and we've also been sending some people to the Australian department of mines and petroleum," he told The Australian.

After discovering significant sources of oil, gas and coal in Mozambique, the government is calling for nationals living abroad to return to the country, most after being exiled during the civil war, reports Business Day.

The country is also expanding its skills-training programmes, while hundreds of Mozambican students are in China attending technical training programmes.

The Vancouver company earned a profit of $26.4 million on $133.5 million in revenues for the year, up 145%, after drilling an astonishing 585,900 meters for minerals and a further 444,400 meters for energy last year.

Overall, only the stock indices of Spain and Portugal's top companies fared worse than Toronto's S&P/TSX-60. But in the group of resource-heavy exporting countries Canada's stock market came in stone last.

Caterpillar has gotten a lot of juice out of overseas sales, and China’s been a growing market for the company. So anything undermining that is a concern for investors.

Premier Gold Mines (TSX:PG) has taken the Cove Gold Project off the hands of Victoria Gold Corp. (TSX-V:VIT) for US$28 million in cash and stock and another $20 million in future gold production.

Egon von Greyerz told King World News that gold imports in China have ramped up considerably due to concerns about the world […]

Work stoppages as a result of safety issues in South Africa cost AngloGold Ashanti 76,000 ounces of lost production in the first quarter.