Australia's largest gold miner is facing a class action from shareholders over its massive financial writedown.

Officials in New Zealand's leading oil and gas region are rejecting claims that cows are being allowed to graze on land polluted by waste from mining and fracking operations.

The Australian budget bottom line is looking bleak, and a weaker economy isn't going to help the situation.

A 'funeral procession' for New Zealand's endangered Maui's dolphin species is currently winding though Wellington's inner city streets.

Deep-sea oil drilling interests claim our Government could receive $300m from it. Is our "clean, green reputation" worth trading in for that, Matt McCarten asks.

Anti-mining groups in Northland are planning to block State Highway 1 for two hours today in a protest against an Australian exploration company's plans to begin prospecting for gold and silver.

Ian Young, the manager of corporate services at Grey District Council, says donations to the Pike River Disaster Relief Trust came to $8,065,727.

By November 18, 2010, there was just enough progress at Pike to reassure some workers that the operation could yet be a success, but not enough to ease the dark fears held by others.

Miners in Waihi will be out of work for several months' next Christmas before Newmont Waihi Gold's controversial Correnso mine starts production.

Australia is nearing the end of a mining boom which has largely insulated the economy from the travails of the global financial crisis.

Grey District mayor Tony Kokshoorn says the resource consent approval for Escarpment coal mine on the West Coast's Denniston Plateau is great news for the district.

The first marine consent application for seabed mining on the North Island's west coast is about to be lodged.

Bernie Monk and his son's best schoolmate have been reunited during an operation to recover the bodies of the 29 men who died in the Pike River mine disaster.

A former Central Otago goldmine worker has admitted stealing gold-bearing sand, which police later found in a plastic lunchbox at his home.

Australian mining magnate and long-time philanthropist Andrew "Twiggy"Forrest has donated A$65 million ($NZ73.9m) to universities in Western Australia.

The absorbing, bitter drama of the life of Australia's richest family will resume in Sydney today, after last-minute wrangling over a key change in its exclusive cast.

Ailing state-owned coal miner Solid Energy's net value to the taxpayer has plunged from more than half a billion dollars to less than $100 million in three years, its annual result yesterday revealed.