China planning to step up controls on coal imports — report

The latest rant against Canada’s federal government’s borrowing practices has gone viral and not because it comes from a well-know economist, but because it is exposed by a well articulated and not camera-shy 12-year-old girl.

African Barrick Gold (LON:ABG) has decided to pay the Tanzanian government an extra 1% in royalties, in light of the current gold price environment.

A group of bearded women belonging to the feminist group La Barbe, crashed last night's Melbourne Mining Club meeting to congratulate the mining industry for its exclusion of women and its lobbying against the carbon tax.

Brazil's Eike Fuhrken Batista is the world of mining's richest man and he's been on a roll this year – until Tuesday when $1,023,200,000 disappeared from his personal fortune.

First Majestic Silver Corp shed most on the day and industry bellwethers Silver Wheaton and Pan American Silver both hit 52-week lows.

Can it really be worse than last year, when the copper price dropped 26% in a single month?

Gold fell today as generally positive euro zone GDP data failed to soothe jittery investors.

In lunchtime trade Molycorp was changing hands for $24.37, down $1.06 or 4%, in reaction to a downgrade and as investors continue […]

Lucara Diamond Corp. (TSX:LUC,NASDAQ:LUC) announced production results for the quarter ended March 2012.