Deep-sea miner Nautilus to get $113m of escrowed funds

First Quantum Minerals, the Vancouver-based copper miner embroiled in a dispute with the Congolese government over expropriation of one of its key assets, has sold its mines in the Central African country.

Fertilizer producer Mosaic Co. (NYSE:MOS) stocks were up US$2.50 this morning, after the company reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit as better prices helped offset a plunge in phosphate sales and flat potash volumes.

LAB Chrysotile Inc., one of the two remaining Quebec’s asbestos miners, has filed for bankruptcy because of high fixed costs and sharply declining revenues.

Workers at First Quantum Minerals' Zambian copper/gold mine resumed work this morning after the country’s minister of labour intervened to end the two-day wage strike.

A Dutch paper reported on Thursday that France's Areva is eyeing a stake in UK-based uranium enrichment company Urenco.

The China Iron and Steel Association expects the country's crude steel consumption to rise 4% and peak at 700 million tonnes this year.

First Quantum announced that it is suspending production at its 80%-owned Kansanshi copper/gold mine in Zambia due to a labour dispute that started yesterday.

Given that the earth's temperature is rising, sciencetists are investigating if gases trapped in the permafrost are going to be released and what effect it will this have on the climate.

Solitario Exploration & Royalty (TSE:SLR) said today that its drilling results at its Bongará zinc joint venture project in Peru were "outstanding".