Fate of Centerra mine not sealed as Kyrgyz-owned company yet to see takeover bid

Already running at a loss or struggling to stay in the black, most thermal coal mines in Australia's Queensland are now facing additional challenges as exports drop and major projects wind back.

Alrosa announced this week that it sold rough diamonds to the Russian state gem repository Gokhran for the first time in three years.

The restart of iron ore mining in Karnataka amid multi-year low prices for the commodity is not seen to impact the global seaborne trade in the near-term.

Rio Tinto would have to build its own power plant and delay commercial production if the two nations cannot come to a deal during long-running power negotiations.

Central banks demand for gold in the second quarter reached 157.2 tonnes, a record high and more than double last year's Q2.

A new report released by Greenpeace claims that China's insatiable demand for coal could imperil fragile water resources in the country's vast north-western hinterland.

Coal India board is likely to approve on Monday the model fuel supply agreement (FSA) to be signed with power firms, with significant changes in the penalty clause for failing to supply to them a minimum 80 per cent quantity of the total fuel contract.

Zijin Mining Group Co, China's largest gold producer by output, said Saturday that its net profits slumped 19.95 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2012 as the world's economic weakness and shrinking demand weighed on global gold prices.

Myanmar —until recently called Burma— is slowly but steadily starting to attract foreign investment, driven mainly by international resource firms eager to tap into the mineral-rich South East Asia's country.