Mining at Gold Road and Gold Fields JV in Australia to start next month

The Australian diamond company Lonrho Mining dazzled investors Tuesday as the company confirmed the finding of two huge diamonds from the Lulo project, in northeastern Angola.

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.

New doubts have emerged over world number one miner BHP Billiton's (LON/ASX/NYSE:BHP) $20 billion outer-harbour project at Port Hedland, Australia, with big names such as JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank saying they expect it to be axed.

A study undertaken by the UN on the impact of the global resources sector on the world's indigenous communities is set to make the Australian mining industry an area of focus.

NSL Consolidated (ASX: NSL) announced Monday it has been formally granted the first of its four thermal coal exploration tenements, EPC 2198, in the Eromanga Basin in southwest Queensland, Australia.

Some of the oldest aboriginal artifacts have been discovered at Rio Tinto's Warkworth coal mine in Australia’s Hunter Valley.

Xstrata Coal confirmed Monday it has cut a number of jobs from its coal mining operations in Australia, due to sinking prices for both coking and certain kinds of thermal coal.

Environmentalists and the local community of central Victoria, Australia, are angry at the Department of Primary Industries for allowing Queensland-based company Fortitude Mining to go ahead with its gold exploration plans in the Wombat State Forest.

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.