Nickel firm Mincor Resources on Thursday revealed a two-pronged growth strategy which would take advantage of the current high gold price and a future recovery in the nickel price. The miner, which suspended operations at its Mariners and Miitel mines, in West...

New Caledonia is weighing lifting restrictions on the sale of nickel ore to China as world prices for the metal tumble and the future of a key Australian customer is in doubt. New Caledonia has long resisted selling ore directly to large consuming countries su...

Palmer Resumes Management Control of Embattled Queensland Refinery

The Ontario government on Sunday celebrated the 125th anniversary of establishing the Ontario Geological Survey (OGS), celebrating the agency’s accomplishments that had helped document the geology of the province and provide modern, independent and credible g...

Clive Palmer's Queensland Nickel has begun shutting down temporarily because of a lack of ore to process.

Brazil’s mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) reported Thursday its deepest quarterly net loss ever, becoming at the same time the first of the three largest iron ore producers to put some of its core assets up for sale.

The government of Indonesia will relax next year its ban on partially processed minerals exports, including copper, nickel, zinc and bauxite ore order to prop up its economy.

Indonesian Minister of Energy Department made a statement on Feb 22nd that mining laws will be revised which may bring opportunities to loose the policies of banning nickel materials exports. But the revision has to be approved by the central government as wel...