As with many localities in Arizona, miners viewed the Chiricahua Mountains as a potential mineral investment. Some sources claim that even the Apache chief Cochise had a secret gold mining operation ...

Mining boosters see a golden opportunity for the Iron Range, if it doesn’t slip away Many in northern Minnesota thought the Trump administration’s domestic energy focus and a Republican-controlled ...

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China has sought for decades to turn its clout as the world’s largest commodities consumer into pricing power. With iron ore — the most traded raw material after oil, and the backbone of global ...

Forty-five miles southeast of Tucson on the east slope of the Santa Rita Mountains are the Greaterville gold placers, discovered by A. Smith in 1874. The deposit, at 5,280-feet elevation, became the ...

Vale Base Metals’ Copper Cliff Smelter Complex in Sudbury. Credit: screengrab from YouTube. Vale’s (NYSE: VALE) base metals unit said it’s targeting 20% growth in its Canadian and Brazilian mineral ...