Africa’s biggest bank releases funding policy on coal projects

Moody's praises higher than expected valuation for the sale of the niobium, phosphate businesses and improving prospects for the global diamond market.

Risk, from a mathematical perspective, is the probability of an event multiplied by its potential impact.

Canada's biggest bank is suing former client Crew Gold over a fee the lender claims it should have been paid by the mining company.

Top global producer sees surplus this year and next as mines pump out more metal and predicts decline in copper price from today's levels through 2017.

Essential for ancient artifacts like the famed burial mask of Tutankhamun, gold has been mined in Egypt for millennia.

Shares in Toronto junior up sharply after adding 220,000oz to ultra high-grade Yaramoko project in West Africa expected to pour first gold in June.

The "Vision for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" could radically transform Saudi Aramco, the Saudi economy, and the country's social structure.

Current oil oversupply could reverse within 20 years as low oil prices have forced pricers to slash spending on exploration and production, a report by Wood Mackenzie shows.

Despite the dilemmas in recent years, which continue to persist, emerging trends in the mining industry may offer solutions — or at least opportunities for improvement industry-wide.