New Zealand’s Pike River coal mine to remain closed

First Uranium said it plans to lay off up to 1,850 employees at its Ezulwini Mine in South Africa.

Newcrest Mining (ASX:NCM) said it will produce about 150,000 oz less gold in its 2011/12 financial year due to production disruptions at Cadia Valley and Lihir, and lower feed grades and recoveries at Telfer.

Gold prices eased on Monday as a warning from Fitch Ratings that it may downgrade France and six other euro zone countries hurt stocks and the euro.

The miner has delayed the first shipment from its Marampa iron ore mine in Sierra Leone to January to allow it to use larger supramax sized vessels instead of handymax sized vessels.

If the uranium industry was hoping that China would be the tide that floats all boats, it will have to wait longer than expected.

It sounds like something out of a B movie trailer or if you're old enough to remember, an episode of Swiss Family Robinson.

The main road connecting Las Vegas and Reno could be rerouted near the central Nevada town of Goldfield to make way for something older than the Silver State itself: a mining boom.

A proposed new coal mine in Queensland is so massive it is likely to do more harm to the local economy than good.