Russian lawmakers support tax hike for mining companies

Bolivia seized three of Glencore’s operations in nine years and the Swiss giant is now initiating arbitration proceedings against the South American nation.

Two years after the mine’s massive tailings pond collapse, the tarnished Golden Triangle environmental and economic fallout continues.

Soros Fund, which took a $263.7 million stake in Barrick Gold Corp. in the first quarter, cut its holdings in the world’s biggest producer of the metal by 94% in the ensuing three months.

Large scale futures speculators and PGM investors in physically-backed exchange traded funds are taking wildly different views of the outlook for the metals.

About a year after two treasure hunters claimed to have found a Nazi train in Poland, laden with gold and gems, a team of 35 researchers has resumed digging for it.

To support the conversion of Chuquicamata, the largest open-pit copper mine in the world, to a large-scale underground mining operation.

Currently unnamed, the stone is one of the largest diamonds ever recovered at the Nyurbinskaya open-pit mine.

The world's top copper miner admits to be facing its “worst crisis ever” since created in 1976.

A wave of overbuilding and production increases in recent years — spurred by a spike in crop prices and a perceived demand that didn't quite materialize — have left the market flooded with supply.