Venezuela’s Guaido seeks EU ‘blood gold’ designation for informal mining

Chinese steel mills are humming and rapidly depleting domestic iron ore mines face tough new environment rules from Beijing translating into surging demand for imports.

In Tracking the trends 2014, Deloitte uncovers the pressing trends facing the mining industry in the year ahead and offers strategies that companies can employ to adapt to changing industry dynamics.

Construction at the gold and silver project, is expected to start early next year, with production slated to begin in late 2015.

While resource nationalism is still a major risk for miners, corrupted governments can be equally or more detrimental to the industry.

Brazilian giant could end up with half of one of the world's greatest mining prizes.

Budget for 2014 is 9.2% lower than last year’s and well below the $18 billion total from 2011.

Peru is "working hard" to start large scale copper projects put on hold by community and environmental protests.

Mexico's notoriously violent drug barons have turned to mining to both expand and diversify their sources of revenue.

Copper production declined 0.3% in the period due to lower ore grades, harder rock and more complicated production processes.