Former Rio Tinto CEO Tom Albanese joins rival Vedanta The news comes only nine months after Albanese was removed as CEO of the second-biggest miner and left the group with a $14billion charge. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 16, 2013 | 4:29 pm
Anglo American abandons Alaskan copper project Pebble Partner in the open-pit gold and copper project, Northern Dynasty Minerals, was quick to clarify it will still go ahead with it. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 16, 2013 | 11:22 am
Devastating cost of illegal mining in Peru higher than ever thought: government About 40,000 hectares of Amazonic forest, not 18,000 as the government thought, has been destroyed by illegal mining in Peru. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 16, 2013 | 8:00 am
Billionaire miner Robert Friedland sounds off "We’re much closer to the bottom of this cycle than you imagine. This is not the end of the super-cycle." Tommy Humphreys | September 15, 2013 | 6:22 pm
About 100 workers evacuated from Rio Tinto’s Bingham Canyon Mine Company removed employees from the mine’s lower pit and halted operations for the nigh as precautionary measures. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 12, 2013 | 6:26 pm
EPA raid on Alaska’s gold mines triggers federal probe Agency officials took part last month in an "armed inspection" to several gold mines near the remote town of Chicken, Alaska. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 12, 2013 | 1:51 pm
The 5 biggest Australian mining services project cancellations Chinese slowdown, weak commodity prices, rising costs, politics and poor business confidence sent these five monster mining services projects to the shelf. MINING.com Editor | September 12, 2013 | 4:04 am
EU financial transaction tax is illegal, say legal experts; Germany to push forward anyway The UK, among others, strongly opposes the tax. Ana Komnenic | September 11, 2013 | 8:11 pm
Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi new CEO set to end mine’s disputes During the board meeting scheduled for this week, Kinnell is likely push for an end of some of the several points of dispute over Oyu Tolgoi. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 11, 2013 | 2:08 pm