Anglo American to cut 85,000 jobs, dividend and assets in sweeping restructuring

Shares of Endeavour Silver Corp. (TSX:EDR)(NYSE:EXK) were up almost 2% at $9.87 Tuesday after it announced drill results from its Bolanitos mine in Guanajuato State, Mexico.

Workers at Lonmin's Marikana mine have accepted a 22% pay increase to end more than five weeks of deadly strikes.

South Sudan, the world's newest nation, has announced plans to enact a mining law by the end of October, pushing ahead exploration and expansion in the likely mineral rich, but unexplored country, helping it to diversify its economy away from oil.

Solvista released first results on a drill program recently initiated in the Middle Cauca Gold belt in Antioquia, Colombia.

Mining giant Rio Tinto has announced more job cuts across its coal mines in Queensland as the state raises its royalty rates.

The Afghanistan Ministry of Mines said Tuesday it opened its final bid for the Badakhshan gold deposit, located in the northeastern province of Badakhshan.

Opposition to TransCanada's (TSX, NYSE: TRP) Keystone XL oil pipeline has reached YouTube, where a recently posted video "We Quit You, Keystone XL (It's Not Us, It's You)" is getting thousands of views as it takes a witty approach to attracting more rivals to the project.

Russia claims it has uncovered a diamond field of record dimensions in eastern Siberia which is the product of a prehistoric asteroid collision.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) maintains its bullish stance on gold, expecting the precious metal to rise robustly over the next several quarters.