Rio Tinto signs JV exploration deal with China’s Minmetals

The Big Three's share of the seaborne trade has fallen back to 57%, but the trend will reverse as capital dries up for emerging producers.

Focus placed on Australia, Africa and Central Asia

Despite gold prices being at the highest in the last three weeks, India’s sales in just one city totalled 300 kg on Sunday, as the country’s festive season of Diwali kicks off.

Just when major miners thought it was better to ditch their diamond divisions, giant Rio Tinto (LON, ASX, NYSE: RIO) says it is looking at the business with renewed enthusiasm, as a deposit the company discovered in India in 2004 has started to bear its shiny fruits.

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit northern Myanmar on Sunday, collapsing a gold mine, a bridge, damaging several old Buddhist pagodas and leaving as many as 12 people feared dead.

The Mumbai exchange recorded an impressive jump in volumes of gold ETF units traded in a special session held on the first day of Diwali.

Oil, gas and mining companies' request to have transparency rules put on hold under 2010 financial reform act has been rejected.

The Archduke Joseph diamond, one of the world's most famous and rarest gems from Europe's aristocracy, is expected to reach up to $25 million when it goes under Christie’s hammer on Tuesday.

Accusations of Chinese miners being dubiously brought into the Canadian province of British Columbia to work in coal mines has prompted the federal government not only to investigate the issue, but to review its entire temporary foreign worker program.