Pike River widow Anna Osborne will continue to self-medicate with marijuana after being told chemotherapy has failed to rid her of cancer.

South Taranaki iwi Nga Rauru feels let down by the Department of Conservation's decision not to submit on a seabed mining application

The President Elect Donald Trump bodes well for farms and coal mines, but trade deals will be left in peril.

The former Pike River safety manager who lost one son in the mine explosion tragedy says tuning in to watch a new tele-doco will be too traumatic.

Solid Energy New Zealand's creditors will get as much as 55 cents in the dollar after the failed state-owned enterprise's mines were sold to three parties.

A Taharoa teenager killed after the quad bike she was on crashed, also seriously injuring her passenger, was a safe driver, locals say.

OceanaGold's Haile mine in South Carolina has been valued at A$1.3 billion ($1.34b) with expectations it's on target to pour first gold by December.

Seabed mining is back in the spotlight as Trans Tasman Resources submits second application for consent to mine off the South Taranaki coast.

An explosion in New York yesterday that saw 29 people injured has been labelled intentional after a second device was found, Trans Tasman Resources face more opposition this morning as a petition to halt all seabed mining is delivered to parliament, and Lydia Ko takes home another trophy.

A reef offshore from Patea is not being explored in order to find life forms that seabed mining could endanger - but that may be one

The gain in first-half profit reflects a recovery in the price of gold.

Can the industry win over a generation of "millennials" with very different demands and expectations?

Twenty-five years after the first diamonds were found in Canada's Northwest Territories, it's still a game of hurry-up-and-wait.

The injured New Zealander freed from Nigerian kidnappers is not yet well enough to return home.

A miner reveals the hidden pain of suffering a mental breakdown while living and working at a remote Australian site.

Solid Energy, which is being broken up and sold, has applied for consent to start a small mine near Reefton, allowing it to retain staff.

This Canadian diamond miner saw its share surge 30pc when it announced it had found the world's second biggest diamond.

One solitary asteroid might be worth trillions of dollars in platinum and other metals. Exploiting these resources could lead to a global boom in wealth, which could raise living standards worldwide and potentially benefit all of humanity.

Plan to create better chances for protection appears to have been scuppered for greater mineral exploitation, writes Anton Van Heldon.

De Beers is ramping up diamond sales to cash in on a recovery from last year's slump.

The extent of Solid Energy's cutbacks is revealed in the company's evidence to Parliament's commerce select committee.

OceanaGold Corp, the gold and copper miner, said its annual profit halved due to low commodity prices and extra costs from its purchase of Waihi Gold Mine.

Solid Energy says a decision on whether the Stockton coal mine should be closed is "pending", and it expects to make a decision in the next few months.

The last gold dredge operating on the West Coast is up for sale.

BHP Billiton will write down the value of its US shale assets by NZ$11.19 billion amid collapsing oil and gas prices.

Figuring out a price tag for some of the world's biggest and rarest diamonds can be as difficult as finding them.

Five years ago today, 31 men hung their identification tags on a board and headed underground to work.

A 30-year-old man has died following a work accident at a goldmine in Southland last night.