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Lucapa finds another large diamond at its Lulo mine in Angola

It's the eighth diamond of over 100 carats recovered this year, and the seventh in just 2.5 years of commercial mining.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 14, 2017 | 7:04 am

Former Xstrata CEO Mick Davis may become Rio Tinto new chairman

The mining veteran could face competition from internal candidates, including former head of UK gas company Centrica, Sam Laidlaw, who now sits on Rio’s board.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 14, 2017 | 3:47 am

Mayor organizes massive protest against Berkeley’s uranium mine in Spain

The leader of the Villavieja de Yeltes municipality is planning to rent buses so that people can attend the rally.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | November 13, 2017 | 7:59 am

This Aussie miner is about to break into South Korea lithium sector

Pilbara Minerals has announced a potential joint venture with two South Korean companies to develop a lithium processing facility in the Asian country.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 10, 2017 | 9:19 am

BHP needs 120 new workers at its Olympic Dam in Australia

The mining giant will add those jobs during the next 12 months.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 10, 2017 | 3:44 am

Rio Tinto joins race for stake in world’s largest lithium miner

Mining giant is eying the 32% interest in SQM that PotashCorp is selling to fulfill China's regulators condition for the approval of the its friendly merger with smaller rival Agrium.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 8, 2017 | 8:26 am

Glencore extends lockout at Australia coal mine as talks stall again

Glencore has extended a lockout of 190 workers at Oaky North mine in eastern Australia for a further two weeks.

Reuters | November 8, 2017 | 3:41 am

New Century raises $53M to restart mothballed zinc mine

The Century zinc mine in Queensland could be churning out ore again thanks to a $52.9 million private placement raised by owner New Century Resources (ASX:NCZ).

Andrew Topf | November 5, 2017 | 5:18 pm

Copper miners to see profit grow further in 2018 — report

Profit margins are expected to end significantly higher this year, and this trend to continue over the next two years, a study by S&P Global Market Intelligence shows.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 3, 2017 | 9:11 am

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