Rio Tinto injects another $302m into Resolution copper project in Arizona

Agency foresees a very harsh competition between coal and gas.

Delaying big new mining projects is a "self-serving" strategy: supply shortages will eventually drive prices back up.

More than 200 workers at Australia's Newcastle port, the largest thermal coal export facility in the world, walked off the job this morning.

This is a landmark transaction for Vedanta, which is joining domestic peers in catching the flood of US dollars being unleashed by central banks.

"It is a significant victory for Mineralogy and an important vindication of the rule of Australian law."

Only behind behind Canada and Australia.

BHP’s decision to use a 100% fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workforce at its Australian Bowen Basin coal mines, instead of hiring from the local community, is generating fierce opposition in Central Queensland.

Group expects 2013 to be year in which “the death bells ring for the commodity supercycle after its duly noted sunset.”

Five unions representing Australian coal terminal employees are going on a strike at 6:30 a.m. Sydney time Friday.