It's nothing new for the Coromandel mining region, it has happened before in 2014, when protestors have greeted prospective foreign backers with strong anti-mining messages. Now, New Talisman, the mining permit holder is expecting to secure a Chinese backer.

Weak demands from steel mills and lower iron ore prices pushed by supply overload from big miners like Vale SA, BHP Billiton Plc and Rio Tinto Plc has given Cliffs Natural Resources and other U. S. miners a tough time.

There is some good news for the Minnesota Iron Range after many months as Northshore Mining will resume operations sometime in the idle of May.

The Illinois coal mines might face stricter oversight in the future as the office of Attorney General Lisa Madigan is considering legal action against the natural resources agency in relation to lax oversight and failure to follow the terms of a court-brokered plan, which called for stronger supervision of coal mines.

A landslide in northern Myanmar on Saturday killed several people and left many injured. The landslide of waste material took place in Kachin state at a time when people were sifting through a mountain of tailings and waste from gold and jade mines.

The efforts made by the Obama administration to minimize the pollution from coal are still in progress. On Thursday, the Interior Department put forward a new set of rule that mainly aims at protecting the streams from pollution caused mainly by coal mining technique called mountaintop removal mining.

The largest gold producer of the world, Barrick Gold Corp aspires to go "back to the future" when its roots were lean and agile and its business model centred around an environment where the company's operational heads enjoyed more autonomy and accountability.