U.S. producers hurt by Chinese steel wheel imports – trade panel

Cash-flush China is intent on seizing its share of the oil and mineral bounty made available by the melting of the Arctic ice cap.

Freeport currently pays 3.5% for mining copper in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, and 1% for gold.

North American potash selling consortium, Canpotex, will be shipping larger amounts of the fertilizer to Indonesia after the five-year potash supply deal signed Tuesday between the offshore selling agency and Southeast Asian buyers.

Mining giant Rio Tinto has decided to target the Indian marriage gifting market with its “Nazrana” brand of gem-based jewellery in an effort to boost its depressed division.

Canadian Centerra Gold said Wednesday that its Boroo open-pit gold mine, located in Mongolia, has received regulatory approval for its heap leach facility, allowing the company to resume operations at the plant.

Rare earths are much less of a trade weapon in Chinese hands than in the past.

The Afghanistan Ministry of Mines said Tuesday it opened its final bid for the Badakhshan gold deposit, located in the northeastern province of Badakhshan.

InformedTrades looks at the economic hole Japan has dug itself, especially since it gave up nuclear energy and started importing energy.

Australia's resources minister, Martin Ferguson, has caused a stir with his assertion that the country's mining boom, one of the biggest drivers of its economic growth, is "over". As he acknowledged, the state of the global economy has depr...