In the second quarter EY’s Canadian Mining Eye index which tracks the performance of 100 TSX and TSX Venture mid-tier and junior companies managed to show gians for the first time in a year.

Mick Carew, a research analyst with Haywood Securities, hopes we have found the bottom of the commodity cycle but expects M&A activity to continue apace through the rest of this year and into 2016 as low metals prices force the hands of underfunded management ...

BHP spin-off South32 is looking to cut costs by $350m a year over the next three years and has flagged a first dividend for shareholders for early next year, as part of the new company’s first results, unveiled Monday.

Professional services firm EY’s Canadian Mining Eye index has gained 4% during the three months ended June, recording a gain for the first time since the second quarter of 2014, compared with a 1% decline in the first quarter

American Manganese Inc. is looking to adapt the AMI Patented Process to recycle spent lithium ion battery materials. With lithium ion battery recycling in its infancy, American Manganese Inc. aims to capitalize on its patented technology and proprietary know-h...

THE ZIMBABWE MINERS Federation (ZMF) says Government is negotiating with ZimAlloys and Zimasco for the release of chrome claims along the Great Dyke in a move that is aimed at empowering tributaries following the lifting of the ban on raw chrome exports. ZMF c...

A contract worker has died from head injuries after being struck by a falling tree at diversified miner Sherritt International’s Ambatovy joint-venture project, in Madagascar.

A subsidiary of Russian diamond major Alrosa has won a tender to supply nickel miner Norilsk with five X-ray slurry analysers.