MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

With this deal, Rio has now agreed to more than $1.3bn in divestments this year.

Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines and joint-venture partner Zijin Mining have transferred a further 15% interest in their Kamoa-Kakula copper project to the DRC’s government.

Locals oppose to the Dalradian Resources' plans to build a processing plant at its Curraghinalt project, which will use cyanide to extract gold.

Company has finished selling its stakes in the White Mountain and Tanjianshan mines, as well as in the Eastern Dragon development project to an affiliate of China’s Yintai Resources.

Authorities have blocked new mining claims on a 30,000-acres area north of the park for at least two years.

Gov’t will work with the four provinces that still burn coal to reach the goal of making sure 90% of Canada's electricity comes from sustainable sources by 2010.

The world's second largest miner said the job cuts at its Australian iron ore business are part of a restructuring of the division.

Move will give the Vancouver miner 80% ownership of Zafranal Peru copper mine project

At least five miners are dead and 11 are trapped after a landslide swept through a copper mine in southeastern Turkey.