Bolivia has passed this month the world's first ruling that grants all nature equal rights to humans. The “Law of Mother Earth,” agreed by politicians and grassroots social groups, redefines the South American nation's mineral deposits as "blessings" and is supposed to lead to radical new conservation and social measures to reduce pollution and control industry.

Deer hunters in the American mid-west have shown little enthusiasm for new non-toxic copper bullets which would reduce the impact of lead ammunition fragments on local fauna.

A Chinese-joint venture in Australia has made a USD$73.4 million takeover bid for Queensland's Endocoal (ASX:EOC).

Gangsters are targeting affluent Gujarati businessman in the traditional European diamond trading capital of Antwerp.

Matt Stroller at Naked Capitalist asks whether the United States is gradually transforming into a resource extraction economy with a more oligarchic […]

Scientists from France's Ecole Polytechnique have developed a remarkable new technology which extracts trace amounts of gold from industrial waste water.

Electronic markets will stay open

Over the past seven years, there have been only nine major discoveries of gold.

Eric Friedland has been buying Peregrine Diamonds as the stock sinks lower