Mining News

Johannesburg - Thousands of striking platinum mineworkers Thursday marched on the seat of South African government to deliver their grievances to the office of President Jacob Zuma.Leaders of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), whose members...

London - India-focused miner Vedanta Resources on Thursday said Tom Albanese, former head of mining giant Rio Tinto, would become the group's CEO from April.Albanese became chairman of Vedanta's holding company last September after stepping down as chief execut...

Johannesburg - Talks aimed at ending a crippling six-week-long platinum miners' strike in South Africa fell apart on Wednesday after producers rejected a revised wage demand.Negotiations "have been suspended indefinitely to allow stakeholders time to reflect on the c...

Johannesburg - Talks aimed at ending a six-week-long platinum miners' strike in South Africa have been suspended after producers rejected a revised wage demand, the companies and mediator said Wednesday.The negotiations "have been suspended indefinitely to allow stak...

Emboldened by a promising copper-gold discovery in Serbia that has catapulted its stock 15-fold in the past two years, Reservoir Minerals Inc <RMC.V>, a small Canadian mining exploration company,...

Z - Mining giant Glencore Xstrata plunged deep into the red in 2013 with a net loss of $7.4 billion (5.3 billion euros) from a profit of $1 billion a year ago, after booking massive writedowns related to its merger.The group said in an earnings statement T...

The Canadian government is giving the country's provinces until April 1 next year to create rules making it mandatory for mining and oil and gas companies to disclose payments to governments, Natural R...

One of the most closely watched uranium deposits not owned by a major miner, Fission Uranium Corp's <FCU.V> Patterson Lake South project, is attracting attention from potential buyers, but Fission's ...

Washington - US environmental authorities made a rare move Friday to block a massive copper and gold mine in Alaska before it even gets under way, in a bid to protect wild salmon.The Pebble Mine project has the potential to be one of the biggest open pit copper min...

Mining companies will meet at the industry's biggest conference next week under the darkest cloud in a decade, but a recent bounce in the price of gold and silver and a trickle of investment and acquisitions a...