Every year, the world consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand, gravel and crushed stone. The astonishing scale of this ...

Iron ore mining company BHP is set to advance with a $2bn (A$3.16bn) investment plan to optimise the concentrator at ...

A major power outage in Chile has disrupted copper production at some of the world's largest mines, prompting a state of ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered a probe into possible tariffs on copper imports to rebuild U.S. production of ...

BHP chief executive officer Mike Henry has reaffirmed the company’s copper aspirations and financial strength during his ...

A host of problems with existing projects make matters worse. Ore quality—the amount of valuable metal in a sample of rock—is declining, forcing miners to dig deeper; mining permits can take years, if ...

An executive order mandates a review of the threats posed by over-reliance on foreign copper, and recommendations for increasing domestic supply.

New evidence reveals that Tamil Nadu may have skipped the Copper Age, directly advancing to iron smelting. Archaeological ...

A recent trial has seen renewable diesel operate a network of Rio Tinto-owned ports, railways and iron ore mines in Western ...

The United States produces domestically just over half the refined copper it consumes each year. More than two-thirds of that ...

In compliance with the JSE Limited Listings Requirements, Kumba announces that Sishen Iron Ore Company (Pty) Ltd has, in accordance with paragraph 8 ...