In the last few years, the Vavilov Ice Cap in the Russian High Arctic has dramatically accelerated, sliding as much as 82 feet a day

Vale is the nickel king based on 2017 production totals. Vale produced 242 kilotonnes of nickel in 2017. Norilsk Nickel was second having produced 163 kilotonnes.

Study explains how radioactive radium transfers to wastewater in the widely-used method to extract oil and gas. Source: Science Daily

A new analysis of thousands of very small earthquakes in the San Bernardino basin suggests that the unusual deformation of some may be due to

The British mainland was formed from the collision of not two, but three ancient continental land masses, according to new research. Source: Science Daily

A Brazilian court has placed a new obstacle in the way of Canada’s Belo Sun Mining’s (TSX:BSX) plans to develop a vast gold mine in

Teck Resource’s Red Dog is still zinc’s king-of-the-hill after producing 542 kilotonnes of the metal in 2017. While top-ranked Red Dog is 170-kilometers north of

Brazil’s Vale (NYSE:VALE), the world’s No.1 iron ore miner, is turning the truck fleet at its Brucutu mine in Minas Gerais into a fully autonomous one

Anglo American’s De Beers, the world’s No.1 diamond miner by value, has just had the lowest sales for its seventh cycle since it began releasing

Resurfacing financial fears will ultimately be supportive of gold, says Reuters in a study published this month. The precious metal is being weighed down by

New evidence shows that ancient farming practices led to a rise in the atmospheric emission of the heat-trapping gases carbon dioxide and methane — a

Evidence left by a volcano under the ice sheet suggests that the observed bulging of ice in West Antarctica is a short-term feature that may