U.S. coal miner Cloud Peak Energy, a unit of Rio Tinto Plc, priced shares in its initial public offering below expectations on concerns the flotation was designed to help its parent's balance sheet rather than fund its own growth.

The chance of BHP Billiton making another attempt to take over rival Rio Tinto soon after a bid ban expires later this month is low, analysts said on Tuesday.

Miner BHP Billiton is considering more joint ventures like its 50-50 iron ore deal with Rio Tinto as it seeks to increase production while keeping costs under control.

Chinese authorities say the arrests of numerous business executives are part of an anticorruption campaign.  But analysts say they're the outgrowth of power struggles within the Communist Party to weaken rivals and their corporate supporters.

China is set to tighten its hammerlock on the market for some of the world’s most obscure but valuable minerals, says the New York Times.

Rio Tinto, the world's second-largest miner, reported a 54 percent drop in first-half earnings on Thursday, its biggest half-year slump on record, as aluminium prices and demand collapsed.

Rio Tinto is set to report first-half results Thursday and market watchers are predicting a sharp drop in profit for the Anglo-Australian miner.

China stepped up its campaign against the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, saying the company had bribed virtually every one of China’s big steel makers, the New York Times reports.

Annual iron ore price negotiations are "definitely not over," a negotiator for the China Iron and Steel Association told the Caijing financial news organisation, but acknowledged that some mills had agreed to a 33% cut as reported earlier.

Shares of Mexico-based Fresnillo surged 7.5 percent Thursday after Citigroup raised its rating on the mining heavyweight to “buy” from “hold.”

Slow economic growth coupled with a meteoric stocks rally that will be difficult to sustain is making for a challenging second half for investors.

Stocks ended flat Monday as a late rally fizzled after the Supreme Court issued a stay, temporarily halting the sale of Chrysler to Fiat.

Stocks opened lower Monday as the dollar and U.S. Treasury yields soared on the back of last week's cheerier jobs data, which prompted speculation that the Fed may raise rates at its next meaeting.

Stocks opened lower Monday as the dollar and U.S. Treasury yields soared on the back of last week's cheerier jobs data, which prompted speculation that the Fed may raise rates at its next meeting.

Futures pointed to a lower open for Wall Street Monday as the dollar and U.S. Treasury yields soared on the back of last week's cheerier jobs data, which prompted speculation that the Federal Reserve may raise rates at its next meeting.