For an industry that routinely makes multi-billion dollar deals with developing-world governments and an array of sometimes controversial leaders, the mining sector has been remarkably free of political scrutiny. No longer. World leaders gathering in Northern Ireland...
Thousands of opponents of a $5 billion gold project of Newmont Mining circled a lake high in the Andes on Monday, vowing to stop the company from eventually draining it to make way for Peru’s most expensive mine. Lake Perol is one of several lakes that would...
Five Democratic senators are asking President Obama to consider blocking a proposed mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, a move that could heighten pressure on the Environmental Protection Agency to veto the project. The group of senators from Washington, Oregon and...
Big investors are increasingly aware that coal consumption will have to drop dramatically as part of efforts to tackle climate change, a top Macquarie Bank executive has warned. The warning from Macquarie’s executive chairman in Melbourne, Simon McKeon, came as a...
Lonmin Plc, the world’s third- largest platinum producer, said it will seek a court order to prevent a possible strike by the biggest union at its operations. The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union said earlier it will serve Lonmin a 48-hour strike...
Indonesia’s government may decide this week on whether to allow Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc to resume open-pit mining, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources said on Tuesday, five weeks after a tunnel collapse killed 28 workers. Freeport suspended...
