Breakthrough technique could produce lithium in hours

Less expensive than burning domestic coal.

The miner poured the initial dole bar at a weight of 100 kilograms containing an estimated 317 ounces of gold.

Frederic Cilins, a French businessman who worked as an intermediary for BSGR in Guinea, became the first person to receive a criminal sentence in a corruption investigation.

Hundreds of thousands have died over the years at the city's main silver mine, as a direct result of cave-ins, overwork, hunger and disease.

The company says its future depends on the Andina mine expansion, as dwindling ore grades in its old mines are expected to bring annual output down.

Cost reduction measures in the mining industry could well have undermined the sector's productivity, which remains down, according to a new EY report.

Improvements at the mine mill throughput and concentrator utilization offset declining ore grades at the world's largest copper mine.

Construction, not mining lifts the machinery giant's second-quarter results.

Las Bambas will be one of the world’s largest copper mines after it starts up in 2015, with annual output equivalent to more than twice the amount of copper MMG currently produces.