Mexican construction company ICA said on Wednesday it would buy a 51% stake in in San Martín Contratistas Generales S.A., Peru's leading company dedicated principally to construction in the mining sector.

Australian Miner put together a guide for job seekers of mining positions in Down Under, which includes a total of 456 projects in the construction pipeline.

Brazil's federal public ministry in Para state has filed legal action demanding that operations be halted at Onça Puma, a nickel mine in the northern Brazilian state owned and operated by Vale SA (NYSE:VALE).

Pan African Resources (LON:PAF) has successfully concluded months of negotiations and has now entered into a deal with Harmony Gold to buy the operating Evander gold mine in South Africa. The acquisition will double Pan African's annual gold production to approximately 200,000 ounces.

An increase in demand from Chinese consumers could make diamonds an attractive proposition for investors, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Nassim Taleb, a former Wall Street trader and author of the famous book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” is being attacked this morning by the financial community in different social media outlets, mainly Twitter, after a Bloomberg article quoted him saying he favours investing in Europe over the U.S.

South Korean company LG International has bid for Peabody Energy's Wilkie Creek coal mine in Queensland, reports The Australian, citing an unnamed source who spoke to Deal Journal Australia.

China could take a page out of Nautilus Minerals' playbook and begin exploring for undersea polymetallic sulphide deposits.

As IRIN reports, the oil find in the county of Turkana (Kenya) brings hope for education and employment to the people in […]