Botswana Diamonds, Alrosa begin exploration in Orapa

Xstrata shareholders rejected the $220 million retention bonus plan by a resounding 78.4%.

A lot gloomier than any other Canadian chief financial officer (CFO) are those executives working for mining companies, reveals industry-specific data published Tuesday by GE Capital as part of its Bi-Annual Mid-Market CFO Survey.

“The addition of these blower products to the already extensive Hibon multistage centrifugal product line gives coverage to an extremely wide array of flows and pressures..."

Canadian diamond supplier Diamcor Mining Inc. (TSX-V.DMI) has secured an additional $4 million loan from its long-term strategic alliance partner Tiffany & Co., to expand the Krone-Endora diamond project in South Africa.

In what shouldn’t come as a surprise for those following the recent events related to the touted and long delayed $66 billion merger between diversified miner Xstrata (LON:XTA) and commodity trader giant Glencore International (LON:GLEN), the Swiss company's shareholders have approved the deal.

A group of activists performing what they called an “oil orgy” protest interrupted the Canada Europe Energy Summit, at Canada House, in London Tuesday morning.

BHP Billiton's (NYSE:BHP), the world's largest mining company, has not been successful in its quest to find a suitable successor to Marius Kloppers, as the South African approaches his sixth year as chief.

The official definition of conflict diamond, as outlined by the Kimberley Process (KP), isn’t likely to change at the next week’s industry plenary in Washington D.C., says the head of the certification scheme, Gillian Milovanovic.

Thieves risk electrocution for lucrative returns