Miners spending again: $50 billion capex in five months

"You've got to blow very hard, Tim"

Cobar Consolidated Resources (ASX:CCU) has fallen short of its target to produce 2.5 million ounces of silver by the start of this month.

"This is as authoritative (an admission) as we are likely ever going to get that central banks are actively involved, in secret, in the gold market"

Chinese investment drive leaves pastoral community divided

Embattled Indonesian miner Bumi has decided to toss its lot in with the prominent Sumatran business dynasty

In an original approach to social media marketing, De Beers invited five top international bloggers to its stores in London and New York to pick out which it would be their dream engagement ring.

Canadian Taseko Mines (TSE:TKO) is having a rocky end of the year as workers threaten with a strike at the company’s copper-molybdenum Gibraltar mine, in British Columbia, and First Nation representatives are calling the company to “stop wasting everyone’s time” and withdraw the controversial New Prosperity mine project proposal, also in B.C.

Swiss miner Xstrata (LON:XTA) is delaying the commercial production of its $5.9 billion Tampakan copper-gold project in the Philippines to 2019, Sagittarius Mines Inc, the firm's local unit, said Wednesday.

London-based explorer Stratex (LON:STI) got an early Christmas present this year, as Canadian Centerra Gold (TSX:CG) paid the junior and partner in the Turkey’s Oksut project a noteworthy $40 million for its 30% stake in the venture.