OceanaGold to restart Didipio mine after new deal with Philippines

Deadly protests last week over alleged pollution from the Tuticorin smelter have prolonged a shutdown of the 400,000 tonnes-a-year operation. This time it seems to be forever.

A company executive says Vedanta is not looking to set up plant elsewhere.

As follow-up to the audit, the environment minister issued two decrees that gave Freeport six months to overhaul management of its mine waste at Grasberg.

Iron ore is still a long way behind other commodity markets, such as crude oil, where paper trade exceeds physical by large multiples.

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.

The pollution control board of Tamil Nadu said the smelter was found last week to be preparing to resume production without permission. 

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

There’s a well-thumbed playbook for how deals involving gold mines in the remote jungles of Indonesia are meant to turn out.