ONE of Australia’s biggest nickel mines has been temporarily shut as its owner, First Quantum Minerals Ltd, investigates the cause of a processing-plant rupture that resulted in a chemical spill.

BHP Billiton has given up trying to sell its struggling Nickel West business, declaring that an acceptable bid could not be found.

After shelving its sale of Nickel West, BHP Billiton will be forced to keep the troubled unit out of its $US15 billion spinoff of unwanted assets amid analyst predictions it would damage the new company's credit rating.

Brazil’s Vale said that a revised nickel mining contract with Indonesia will raise maximum royalties, cut land holdings and require its Indonesian unit to sell another 20% of its shares to local investors.

Reuters reported that Indonesia's mines ministry nnounced January to August production and sales data.Coal exports for January until September were 234.76 million tonnes, against production of 310.84 million tonnes.

A new nickel mine has been opened by the Burundi government in the country's Musongati region.

lobal contract mining group, Barminco has been awarded a contract extension to carry out underground mining development and production activities at Western Areas’ Spotted Quoll and Flying Fox nickel mines in Western Australia. The extension is for an initia...

Reuters reported that a Philippine proposal to ban exports of unprocessed metal ores could take 7 years to implement.