Company says latest Solid Energy cuts not a 'slash and burn exercise'.

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.

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.

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful - so goes the advice of investment sage Warren Buffett.

Oceana Gold is predicted to boost gold production 30 per cent to 40 per cent by 2017.

Sixty-five staff to axed as operator admits there is no chance whatsover of finding a buyer for Waikato mine that's cost about $500,000 a month to keep open.

Coalminer Bathurst Resources has posted a net loss of $16.4 million after tax for the year to June 30, 2015, compared to $189.9 million the previous year.

Fonterra has confirmed it has put on hold a proposed coal mine at Mangatangi while it assesses its energy options.

Solid Energy creditors yesterday voted to retain the company's existing administrators and not to set up a creditors' committee.

Solid Energy acting chairman Andy Coupe admitted it was "unlikely" that any sale, or sales, would cover its outstanding debt.

Gold futures have fallen for the second time in three days amid mounting speculation that the US Fed will raise interest rates.

Genesis Energy announced its last two coal-burning electricity generators at Huntly Power Station will be shut down.

Mr Key said Solid Energy had $300 million of outstanding debt and was in a "precarious position".

A little less than four years ago, the world looked like it was about to end and gold hit an all-time high. Now it has lost its lustre.

A collapse in iron ore and coal prices has exposed Australia's true vulnerability.

Gold prices have plunged to a five year low, but a local expert says Kiwi investors will hold out until prices lift again.

Up to 60 mining jobs have been promised with the start up of two new goldmining operations near Hokitika and Kumara.

The owner of the Sams Creek Gold Project, which sits atop what could be New Zealand's biggest undeveloped gold deposit, has slashed the value of the resource.