Mining industry must improve human rights, environment protection — index

A hard bean, the guar, grown in India's most arid and hard scrabble region is a key ingredient in making hydraulic fracturing better.

A UK Labour MP has moved an “early day motion” in the House of Commons seeking a debate on mining in the Indian state of Goa, calling upon the British government to urge local authorities to address the issue as a matter of urgency.

Recent discoveries of rare earth minerals at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean could break China's existing stranglehold on supply of the key raw materials.

Investor fears about mining stocks are misplaced especially if those companies are mining in Mongolia. The country home to the largest copper deposit and this Gold Report explains why there is potential for dozens more similar finds.

The Democratic Party which campaigned on sharing more of the spoils of mining with Mongolian citizens won the majority of seats while the junior partner in the new ruling coalition, the MPRP – led by a former president Nambaryn Enkhbayar – bases its whole doctrine on taking back foreign-owned mines.

Zijin Mining Group (HK:2899), China’s largest gold producer, announced on Friday that its bid for Australia’s Norton Gold Fields Limited (ASX:NGF) had successfully obtained approval from Australian regulators.

Dee Woo writes in the Business Insider that the Chinese government no longer has any policy options left, and it must start deleveraging.

The Chinese economy logged 7.6% of growth in the second quarter, falling beneath the 8% threshold for the first time in three years, and hitting its lowest level since the first quarter of 2009, when the global financial crisis was still raging.

The Facebook page of the junior partner in the likely ruling coalition post the Mongolian elections makes for scary reading.