Russian businessman Potanin says he may raise stake in Nornickel

Safe haven no more? Or how to "portray what is evidently a financial and economic crisis as nothing to be concerned about"?

The former mining town of Centralia, in Pennsylvania, has been on fire since 1962, when a coal seam running into a mine shaft set on fire. It hasn't stopped ever since.

Chinese import price for 62% iron content fines at the port of Qinqdao lost $5.01 or 10.01% of its value to $44.59 a tonne, the largest percentage drop on record.

The human rights committee is currently meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of finalizing its report and is hearing from Canadian non-government groups, including Amnesty, and from the federal government.

They claim the official report on the police killing of 34 striking miners in 2012 is a "gross defamation" of those who died.

As high volatility in the Chinese stock-market reinforced worries of a dropping demand from the nation, the world’s top metals consumer.

Getting — and keeping — a social license to operate, as well as resource nationalism, remain among the top five business risks for the industry.

But New South Wales says the proposed amendment would give social and environmental issues equal standing with the economic in decision making.

The sustained losses place smaller miners back in the danger zone.