Electric vehicle rush fuels optimism at LME Asia Week

One of the world's oldest, rarest, and most coveted diamonds is going up for auction at Sotheby's.

SGS has been awarded the operational contract for the on-site laboratory at the Oyu Tolgoi mine in the Southern Gobi Region of Mongolia. This 3 year operational contract was awarded to SGS at the end of 2011.

Billionaire Australian Gina Rinehart, is taking Rio Tinto to court, demanding the world's third largest miner pay her 2.5% of the income streams from iron ore production at the Channar and Eastern Ranges mines on top of the royalties from three other Pilbara properties she is already receiving.

A South Korean conglomerate has cited global economic uncertain as a key reason for pulling out of a US$324 million deal with Australia-based Cockatoo Coal.

NunatsiqOnline profiles the engineering hurdle Baffinland Iron Ore Mines Corp. will face as it attempts to get iron ore from its inland Mary River iron ore site to ports on the coast.

The key policy maker behind a drive to impose a 25% tax on Indonesia's mining exports passed away unexpectedly on Saturday.

Iron ore mining in India’s Karnataka state will be allowed to continue, but in a limited way, the country’s Supreme Court has […]

Diversified miner BHP Billiton (NYSE:RIO) today became the third iron giant to join the new China Beijing Metals Exchange (CBMX), only a few days after competitors Vale (NYSE:VALE) and Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) did the same.

In another attempt to reduce its dependence on China's strangehold on rare earth element supply, Honda announced that its dealers will start to recycle old cars to extract the rare earth metals from the nickel-metal hydride batteries.