With positive feasibility studies in hand, companies aim to start building at least three new diamond mines in Canada by the third-quarter of next year, at a combined cost of around $3.4 billion.

Southern Copper Corp. is evaluating the construction of a hydroelectric plant in Peru to mitigate the impacts that the energy crisis in the second world producer of copper may have in its operations, said the company’s president Oscar Gonzalez.

An Argentinean government body that is mapping glaciers in the Central Andes has released initial results of its national glacier inventory, showing that many of the country’s mining projects sit in glacier-rich areas and may, therefore, be a threat to country’s future water supply, among other possible ill effects.

New York Times reports that Big Sandy, an eastern Kentucky coal-burning plant, will not be retrofitted so it can meet environmental regulations.

Energold Drilling (TSX VENTURE:EGD) beat back a commodity overhang in 2012 and announced a 134% increase in revenue, growing from $22.7 million to $53.3 million.

Eldorado Gold Corporation ("Eldorado") ("the Company" or "We") (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO)(ASX:EAU) today confirmed its intention to be removed from the official list of the Australian Securities Exchange ("ASX") effective at the close of trading on August 31, 2012 (Sydney time). Eldorado had previously announced on February 24, 2012 that it intended to de-list from the ASX (see news release 12-09).

ABC News examines the rumour that big money can be made in mining in Australia with nary more than a high-school diploma.

Market is primed for patient accumulation, says Robert Cohen.

Troubled Vancouver miner, Baja Mining (TSE:BAJ), said that it laid off 40% of its staff to conserve cash and admitted that there is "no assurance" that it will find funding to complete its Boleo project, a $1.143 billion copper-cobalt-zinc project in Mexico.