Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill iron ore mine readies for first shipment

The gold mining industry has been digging its own grave by telling just half of the real cost story, Gold Fields (NYSE:GFI) CEO Nick Holland told the audience Thursday at this year’s Denver Gold Forum in Colorado.

CEOs are getting — on average — 31% less this year.

Canadian Stornoway’s Renard diamond project might not be ready by 2015 due to delays in the construction of the Route 167 extension from Chibougamau to the Otish Mountains.

Philippines-based Philex Mining Corp. (PINK:PXMFF), the country’s biggest miner, said it is ready to start harvesting coffee from its demo farm located in the Barangay Ampucao district, in Itogon.

No U.S. president has waxed as poetically about mining the moon the way John F. Kennedy did about landing on it. But that didn't stop four entrepreneurs from making their best pitches Sept. 11 to two empty chairs.

Brazilian mining giant Vale has followed the gloomy trend set by BHP and Xstrata by announcing it will lay-off workers at its coal operations.

Mametlwe Sebei, one of the main leaders of South Africa's striking platinum miners, urged workers to go on a national strike that he said would "bring mining companies to their knees.”

Sinking global commodity prices have negatively impacted Canada’s North near-future mining outlook, but longer-term prospects for the industry in the three territories remain strong.

South African miner Harmony Gold has suspended all drilling and blasting activities at its Joel mine, following a fatal underground explosion on Wednesday afternoon.