The company is sticking to plans to spend $680 million this year including ramping up production at its Noche Buena mine. The firm has five operating mines and this year forecasts 41 million ounces of silver produced and 460,000 ounces of gold.

Barrick announced last week  a 50-60% cost blow-out for the copper-gold-silver  project straddling the Chile–Argentina border which could end up with a final bill of as much as $8 billion with $3 billion already spent.

The Chicago Tribune reports that Midwest Generation is facing bankruptcy as it being squeezed by low natural gas prices and costly upgrades to its six coal-fired electric generating plants in Illinois:

With 91% of outstanding deposited, the Maple Group has taken control of the TMX Group. The deal has taken over a year to complete and is worth $3.8 billion.

Inter Pipeline Fund ("Inter Pipeline") (TSX:IPL.UN) announced today that it has entered into a binding Shipper Support Agreement to provide bitumen blend and diluent transportation services to three major oil sands projects owned by the FCCL Partnership ("FCCL"), a business venture between Cenovus Energy and ConocoPhillips.

Business Insider has the story about Greenland and global warming, which is peeling back thick ice and uncovering vast mineral wealth.

NASCAR celebrity driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., is appearing in ads supporting the coal industry.

Brilliance.com with a brief infographic on the need-to-know properties of diamonds: Carat, color, clarity and cut.

Natural Resources Holdings produced a terrific report—which lists the world's top 50 producing mine and undeveloped deposits—that warns there is a paucity of exploitable gold in the coming years.