The Latest Breaking News from Mining

Put option buyers might have just bet the wrong way about the energy and basic materials sectors, where investors can profit.

Three companies focusing primarily on silver mining may appeal to investors looking to capitalize on the metal's strong performance in 2025.

Summary Orla Mining (ORLA) shows strong technical buy signals, with a 101.60% gain in the last year and a Trend Seeker buy signal since 2/26. The company owns significant mining projects in Mexico, Panama, Nevada, and Canada, exploring for gold, silver, zinc, lead, and copper. Fundamental factors include a market...

About 80% of South Africa’s electricity still comes from burning coal. The country’s 108 coal mines have resulted in many communities being forced off their land from the 1970s to date. They have not only lost their homes and land, but have suffered the trauma of their ancestral graves being…

Before it could cast its first gold bar, Amaroq had to build a port and housing, repair a road, and ship over equipment -- a logistical nightmare highlighting the complexities of mining in inhospitable Greenland.

Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ambitions and Indigenous rights

A controversial mining deal between the DRC and China has come under the spotlight, as NGOs and civil society groups warn of financial losses and lack of transparency, one year after the 'contract of the century' was updated.

Mali has suspended licenses for artisanal gold mining due to several fatal accidents at mining sites

The local government in a resource-rich Philippine province has unanimously voted in favour of a 50-year ban on new mining permits, a decision its supporters said cannot be overridden by Manila.

El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. In the community of Santa Rosa de Lima, a two-hour drive from the capital San Salvador, wastewater still flows directly into the San Sebastian river from a nearby hill where a gold mine operated for 100 years until 2006.

Sand underpins everything from skyscrapers to smartphones. Sharp sand (as opposed to rounded desert sand) is the key ingredient in concrete, while high-purity silica sand is essential for making the silicon chips that power our digital devices.