OceanaGold plans to scale back its operations and is expected to axe more than 100 jobs at the Macraes goldfield in Otago in response to a falling gold price.

The size of Australia's iron ore export earnings continues to soar despite concerns about an end of the mining boom, a new report says.

A poll reveals a striking generation gap in attitudes to mining.

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

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

Wellington Zoo is making a home for four Tasmanian Devils which are due to arrive there this week.

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.

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.

Forest & Bird (F&B) has pulled the plug after a two-year legal battle to stop Bathurst Resources' new Buller coal mine.

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.

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.

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

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