Vale adopts new global working model

The mining companies insist the government reinsert a stability clause, present in the former code.

After vowing for over a century it would never sell stones made in laboratories, De Beers will start doing so in September.

Large scale speculators in platinum futures go shortest ever as Europe industrial policy chief says "diesel cars are finished".

Fighting between the Congolese army and a local militia in eastern DRC forced Banro to suspend operations at the Namoya gold mine for a month in mid-2017.

Demand for electric vehicles, using cobalt in batteries, could spark a deficit of cobalt as soon as 2022.

Despite its insatiable appetite for materials, India is yet to impose itself among the mining heavyweights like Australia, China or even the U.K.

McKinsey asks if the availability and rising prices of cobalt, lithium, copper and nickel will constrain greater electric vehicle penetration.

With new technologies providing opportunities for growth, mining companies are preparing to launch into a new wave of investment.

Petra has been hit by production delays, strikes, a confiscated consignment of diamonds and a strong South African rand.