With the mining sector seen nearing the bottom of the cycle, Rio Tinto Group signalled to analysts it's ready to resume mergers and acquisitions.

OceanaGold has announced plans to buy Newmont Mining Corp's Waihi operation for cash, plus adjustments.

China's push to challenge US dominance in global trade and finance may involve gold - a lot of gold.

From Africa to Ireland, mines that have produced zinc for decades are now tapped out.

Atlas Iron, Australia's fourth-largest iron ore supplier, will suspend all operations this month in response to a slump in prices to their lowest in a decade.

Gina Rinehart has locked in supply contracts with three of the largest iron ore-consuming Asian nations outside of China.

Oil bobbing around the US$50 mark was the "the elephant in the room" at the Advantage New Zealand Petroleum Summit but veteran oil man Sean P Flanagan says he's seen it all before.

One-time environmental activist turned face of the Colorado oil and gas industry in says the road to winning the public over is a long and "boring" one.

A publicly-owned entity must pay Mobil almost $1m in courts costs for its failed attempt to get the oil company to pay for the clean-up of Auckland's tank farm.

Iron ore baron Andrew Forrest likes doing things his own way.

Forrest raised alarm bells for the watchdog after telling a business dinner in Shanghai that he would be happy to cap Fortescue's iron ore production at 180 million tonnes a year.

A think tank report into unlocking planning obstacles faced by miners says central government needs to fund local councils for handling complex resource applications.

Petromac, has evolved a disruptive technology that lets oil and gas companies get better data from wireline logging of oil wells.

A recovery in oil prices which began in February is not justified by fundamentals as there remains a supply glut in the market, oil cartel Opec says in its monthly report.

Greymouth Petroleum's former chief operating officer and his company have been ordered to pay almost $780,000 to the oil and gas firm for negligence associated with a fracking operation and a seismic survey programme in Taranaki.

The price of oil is tumbling again, rattling an already-shaken oil industry and heralding lower prices for consumers.

Oil and gas company Greymouth Petroleum Holdings wants more than $830,000 in damages from a former director who was ordered by the High Court to sell his stake in his firm.

Oil prices closed higher after a volatile session that saw the New York price drop below US$44 a barrel for the first time since March 2009.

Plunging oil prices have forced explorers to scale back plans in New Zealand, some have had to restructure and there could be a sharp decline in capital spending in a sector the Government has backed....

Australia's coal seam gas extraction industry is set for a bumper year in 2015, but the petroleum exploration sector isn't.

It has become standard for tough questions to be asked of oil companies when the price of petrol rises or falls dramatically.

Petrol prices dropped for the 12th successive time this week and even better news appears to lie ahead for holiday motorists.

The sharp fall in oil prices is set to continue benefiting consumers but could delay exploration projects around New Zealand.

The sharp decline in oil and dairy prices could have a huge impact on the domestic economy as the former is our largest import item and the latter our biggest export earner.

Most of $8 million the Government is putting into mineral and oil and gas geotechnical studies will be spent on aerial aeromagnetic surveys.

BP and Z are both claiming to have led the market in reducing their national price for 91-octane petrol to a smidgeon below $2 a litre this morning.