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By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Nuria Menéndez, managing director of Orovalle, Orvana Minerals’ subsidiary in Spain, told local newspaper La Nueva España that the company has plans to reopen the Carlés gold mine, located in the Salas municipality of the Principality of Asturias, northern Spain. According to the newspaper, Menéndez explained that the mine was put […]

By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) announced this week that one of the six employees who was hospitalised after being trapped underground for days has been discharged from the hospital and is in good health. According to the miner, the other five rescued employees remain in a stable condition and are making good progress.

By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud The Managing Director of Sukari Gold Mining Company, Youssef el-Raghy, told Egypt Today that the first large-scale modern gold mine in Egypt has produced 106.7 tonnes of the yellow metal since it started operations in 2010. In Q1 2018, the mine produced 124,296 ounces, some 30,000 ounces below Q4 2017 levels

By Reuters A Honduran judge has temporarily blocked a Canadian-listed miner from exhuming dozens of human remains at a more than 200-year-old cemetery in the Central American country to make way for a gold mine, a lawyer for the local citizens said on Friday. Since 2016, Minerales de Occidente (MINOSA), the Honduran subsidiary of Aura

By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud The government of the Canadian province of British Columbia and the Nisga’a Nation signed an agreement today that ensures that the latter receives a share of the mineral tax revenue collected from the Brucejack Gold Mine. The project, owned and operated by Pretium Resources (NYSE:PVG), is an underground mine that has

By Reuters The NuevaUnion gold and copper project in northern Chile plans to deliver its environmental impact statement by the end of 2018 after completing feasibility studies earlier this year, a source at the mine said on Friday. The project joins two mines – one belonging to Goldcorp and the other to Teck Resources –

By Reuters JOHANNESBURG, May 11 (Reuters) – South Africa trade union Solidarity has submitted wage hike demands in the gold sector of at least 10 percent annually over the next three years, according to a document submitted to the Chamber of Mines seen by Reuters. Solidarity only represents about 2 percent of the workforce in

Chile’s Caserones copper operation, majority-owned by Japan’s top smelter, JX Nippon Mining & Metals, in conjunction with fellow miner Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., continues to be a source of pain for both companies, as they struggle to bring it to full capacity and meet profit targets. The mine, behind schedule ever since it began

By Cecilia Jamasmie Ethiopia has suspended a mining licence for MIDROC Gold, company owned by Saudi billionaire Mohammed al-Amoudi, after more than a week of sometimes violent protests in a town near the mine. Demonstrators had blockaded roads in the country’s unruly Oromia region since April 30, preventing people from going to work and forcing

Junior explorer Megastar Development (TSXV: MDV) announced today that it has signed a Definitive Option Agreement with Paradex, a private American mining exploration company, and Minera Zalamera, a private Mexican mining exploration company, to acquire 100% interest in the mineral concessions known as the Rama de Oro project located in the state of Oaxaca, southern