SA platinum cuts to hurt global output over next two years

When sending robots down a mine or other areas that are hard to navigate, researchers at EPFL's Laboratory of Intelligent Systems decided to take a page from nature and design a robot that doesn't just avoid danger but knows how to right itself when it crashes.

NASA shared its plans for landing Curiosity on Mars next month—what the project team calls seven minutes of terror.

As premier sponsor of the Jewellery News Asia (JNA) Awards, Rio Tinto congratulated the shortlisted finalists announced at a press conference in Hong Kong last Thursday.

The Kyrgyz Parliament is considering revoking Centerra Gold's mining license, accusing the Canadian gold miner of damaging the environment and stealing the country's riches.

Chile’s government decision to privatize the country’s lithium, announced last week, has the country immersed in a heated debate over who has the right to exploit the vast reserves of the so called “white gold” mineral.

Peruvian authorities met Thursday with representatives of the town of Espinar in southern Peru, to resolve a conflict between the community and Xstrata’s Tintaya copper mine, which they accuse of polluting their land and water supplies.

The lands will be open for mining licenses, but a majority of them are in protected zones, so officials would have to carefully pick specific regions to auction.

The mining sector's bellwether companies were all beaten down on Thursday as the price of metals and minerals continued to slide and economic indicators from across the globe painted a bleak picture for the mining industry.

Commodity bulls point to the massive build out in the developing countries to buttress their argument that the long-term outlook for metals is bullish—and the party has only just begun