Mining News

Mylan's Robert J. Coury is the highest-paid executive at public companies based in the Tri-State region for the third year in a row, easily outdistancing PPG Industries' Charles E. Bunch, who finished second.

It has been four years since FreedomFest drew crowds to the Alcoa Duck Pond. On June 29, the fireworks and the Fourth of July fun return, officials said.

Guru John Paulson , founder of Paulson & Company, knows the highs and the lows of the market.

Brazilian steelmaker CSN, or Cia SiderAorgica Nacional SA, is still evaluating the possible purchase of the Steel Americas unit of ThyssenKrupp AG, the company said in a regulatory filing late Friday.

Marketwired HOFFMAN ESTATES - Amcol International Corp.'s board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of 20 cents a share for the second quarter of 2013, payable July 9 to shareholders of record as of June 6. Shareholders also re-elected all class III directors to the board.

An infrastructure transaction between Cliffs Natural Resources and the Rio Tinto Eagle Mine will benefit both the company and the Marquette County community.

Stocks continued their climb into uncharted territory on Friday, racking up the fourth week of gains in a row as encouraging economic data prompted investors to pick up shares of growth companies.

ALCOA - A popular Independence Day celebration in Blount County is returning this year after it was nixed four years ago.

Ecuador's government on Thursday presented a mining bill to Congress that should pave the way for the signing of contracts with several investors, including Canada's Kinross Gold Corp.

I have so far chosen to follow the Keystone campaign from a safe distance. After staring into a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence in West Virginia and barely escaping, I was pretty sure I wasn't ready for jail again.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is still figuring out whether to support or oppose a new 50-year operating license for dams that once powered an Alcoa Inc.

Larry Leamer and Bruce Stanley will hold a free discussion and book signing of The Price of Justice on May 18 from 7-9 pm at Chief Logan State Park.

Zacks currently has $6.70 target price on the stock. Zacks has also taken action a number of other basic materials stocks recently.

It's important for investors to understand that there are two types of coal mined.

The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has approved the reopening of Consol Energy's Blacksville No.

Kansas City-based WireCo WorldGroup named Christopher Ayers as its new president and CEO.

Sibanye Gold led losses among South African gold producers as work stoppages at the country's platinum mines stoked investor concern that renewed labor unrest will curb output.

Glencore Xstrata chairman John Bond was voted out by shareholders at the first annual general meeting of the world's biggest exporter of power-station coal.

The slide that took down a corner of Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine just might land in the record books.

Of the stocks in the steel sector Mastery is most intrigued by Steel Dynamics , U.S. Steel Corp and AK Steel .