Peru seen losing title of no. 2 copper producer soon to Congo

The ministry of mines last month suspended the issuance of mining licenses and commissioned an audit in response to public complaints about a lack of transparency.

Guinea's junta has reached an agreement with Rio Tinto and a Chinese-backed consortium to resume activities at Simandou.

Despite endemic levels of poverty, Guinea vies with Australia as China’s largest supplier of bauxite.

The National Union of Mineworkers and Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union have been on strike since March 9.

The largest white diamond ever to come to auction will hit the block at Christie’s in Geneva on May 11.

The world’s top bauxite exporter has a law that gives it the right to ship 50% of mining companies’ exports, but it hadn’t put it into effect until now.

The South African coal miner and its shares are up six-fold in the last nine months.

JORC-compliant Ewoyaa lithium resource grows 42%.

Margins are way above historical norms, and such a drastic divergence of price and production cost cannot last indefinitely, says WoodMac.