Zambia dumps mining royalty hike, settles at 9%

Outotec, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of filtration solutions for the mineral processing industry, has introduced a modular version of the Larox filtration plant. It is available in configurations that suit scope, scale-up and the unique specifications of individual plants.

Randgold Resources (LON:RRS, NASDAQ:GOLD) shares fell close to 13% this morning after a military coup in Mali, where the company has three gold mines that account for most of its bullion production.

Takeover activity is poised to heat up in the Canadian uranium sector as energy-hungry China hunts for feedstock to fuel its growing family of nuclear reactors.

London copper futures turned negative on Thursday, after manufacturing data on China that showed factory activity in the world's top metals consumer shrank for a fifth month.

The Canadian federal budget due to be released next week will please miners and the oil patch and is likely to make environmental groups see red, not green.

A plan to dig a vast copper mine in arid southern Arizona is pitting the needs of American industry — and arguably the national economy — against a coalition of local residents and environmentalists.

The 30% tax on iron ore and coal producers passed by the Australian government may raise the prices of those commodities but will also shrink margins of steelmakers, analysts say.

Gordon Brown's sale of 400 tons of gold in 1999 has cost the United Kingdom GBP11 billion, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, in his 2012 budget speech.

Coal mining in Appalachia has survived deadly explosions, the Great Depression and the country’s largest armed insurrection since the Civil War. The latest threat is booming shale-gas production.