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On June 8, in a rocky, arid and remote corner of Western Australia, a copper-gold mine owned by Sandfire Resources, a mid-tier firm, witnessed the commissioning of an adjacent 34,080-panel photovoltaic (PV) solar installation. It was a milestone: With...

In the lead-up to the 2010-11 Queensland floods that overwhelmed that State’s mining industry, only one mine operator conducted an audit, upgraded infrastructure and installed new pumps, writes Tracey Mackay. While Queensland experienced a record...

Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen: Here are the following closes for gold and silver today: Gold:  $1091.40 down $12.00  (comex closing time) Silver $14.72 down 5 cents. In the access market 5:15 pm Gold $1094.25 Silver:  $14.80 First, here is...

Chris Ecclestone, principal and mining strategist at London-based Hallgarten & Co., finds optimism in the most unlikely places. He says that the key reason to be cheerful in 2015 is that the mining sector remains largely ignored. Ecclestone posits...

By Laurynas Vegys, Research Analyst “I would NEVER invest in a mining company—they destroy land, pollute our water and air, and wreck the habitat of plants and animals.” These were the points made to me by a woman at a social gathering...