Mining News

BHP Billiton suspended all its iron ore mining in Australia yesterday, shutting a third of the country's production, after the second mine worker death in the past 10 days, raising broader safety concerns in ...

Aqaba Development Corporation has signed a 30-year Build, Operate and Transfer agreement with Jordan Phosphate Mines Company and the Arab Potash Company to rehabilitate, develop, ...

Western Australia may vote the pro- uranium mining Liberal Party into government, giving the Australian Labor Party its first state-level election loss in more than a decade, ABC Television said, citing early ...

U.S. stocks erased an earlier rally as a retreat in commodity producers overshadowed gains in airlines and automakers after Hurricane Gustav spared drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, sending oil to a ...

UT: Judge gives light sentences to polluters The Salt Lake Tribune Sep. 5--Two former managers of the Johnson Matthey Inc.

Gold production in Australia, the world's third-largest producer, slumped 13 percent in the June quarter as rising production costs constrained output from mines, Surbiton Associates Pty said.

The nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1% in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs, dramatic proof of the mounting damage a deeply troubled economy is inflicting on workers and ...

Barrick Gold Corp. announced Friday that 94 per cent of the shares of Cadence Energy Inc.

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA and LAKE CITY, COLORADO-- - Richmont Mines Inc. a gold exploration, development and production company with operations in North America, and LKA International, Inc.

XSTRATA Queensland will buy a 17.83 per cent stake in Indophil Resources from Lion Selection.

Miner BHP Billiton Ltd. Friday said it has suspended its iron ore operations in Western Australia state following two deaths - one Thursday evening and another last week.

Global demand for coal has shown some signs of slack, leaving investors to wonder what's next for U.S. producers who've seen prices at times triple over the past year.

ELKO, Nev. -- The bounced paychecks and lost college scholarships for some 400 mine workers laid off due to the Jerritt Canyon Mine closure will get their money.

Kinross Gold has won shareholder approval for its C$870 million bid for Aurelian Resources , and will take control of the rich Fruta del Norte gold deposit in Ecuador.

File photo shows a view of Mongolia's capital city of Ulan Bator. The Oyu Tolgoi mine in the country is set to become one of the world's biggest copper mines as Canadian mining interests begin mapping the ...

RIO Tinto, the world's second largest iron ore producer, has declared force majeure on some of its iron ore shipments after a rail car dumper sustained damage in Western Australia.

Chinese aluminum maker Chinalco is in a bind: It can either wait and see if BHP Billiton makes a bid for rival Rio Tinto or it can increase its stake in the company in order to have some say in the deal.

London : Ratan Tata, Chairman of one of India's largest business conglomerates, the Tata Group, has been awarded by the UK India Business Council for his significant contribution to Indo-British business ...

Newmont Mining Corp. says it will cover the final uncashed paychecks of workers who were laid off in August from the Jerritt Canyon Mine by another mining outfit.

Brazilian steel company Gerdau S.A. will invest US$1.4 billion in its Peruvian subsidiary, an effort to transform Peru into a regional steel powerhouse that can profit from Brazil's building boom.