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Demonstrators have blockaded roads in Ethiopia’s unruly Oromia region pressing the government to revoke the renewal of a mining licence for a company owned by Saudi billionaire Mohammed al-Amoudi because of alleged pollution and health risks to locals. Protesters have blockaded local roads since April 30, preventing people from going to work and forcing schools […]

MOKOPANE, South Africa, May 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Robert Friedland, Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) (OTCQX:IVPAF), and Lars-Eric Johansson, Chief Executive Officer, announced today that a new agreement will provide local, treated water to supply most of the bulk water needed for the first phase of production at the Platreef platinum-group metals, nickel,

Australia’s biggest gold miner Newcrest Mining Ltd said it expects its flagship Cadia mine to return to full production rates by the end of June. The miner said it had begun depositing tailings into the Cadia Hill open pit over the weekend, after receiving approval from the New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment

With the support of EarthRights International, the Peruvian Chaupe Family announced this week that they intend to appeal a recent decision by a federal court in Delaware that ruled that their case against Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE:NEM) should be heard in Peru – not Delaware, where the company incorporated almost 100 years ago. In a

Seven of the thirteen gold miners who were trapped underground since Thursday at Sibanye-Stillwater’s (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) mine in South Africa have died as a result of their injuries, the company confirmed Saturday. The workers got stuck at the company’s Masakhane mine, part of the Driefontein operations following a quake that caused a fall of ground

Tahoe Resources (TSX: THO, NYSE: TAHO) announced this week the end of a strike carried out by 65 per cent of its workforce at the La Arena gold mine since April 22, 2018. Workers were demanding higher profit-sharing payouts. However, the company has said that it addresses such payouts in accordance with the Peruvian labour

The DIVA Museum, an institution created with the idea of highlighting the story behind some of the world’s most beautiful diamonds, opened today in Antwerp, the capital city of the Flemish province of the same name located in northern Belgium. Antwerp is known for being home to silversmiths, jewellers and diamond dealers since the sixteenth

Diversified miner Anglo American said on Friday it will end its investment in deep sea mining company Nautilus Mining. “We are exiting our small minority shareholding in Nautilus, as part of the prioritisation of our portfolio on our largest and greatest potential resource assets,” Anglo spokesman James Wyatt-Tilby said, confirming a report in the Financial

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TORONTO, May 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA) (NYSE:SA) announced today that it has closed its previously announced non-brokered flow-through financing, including the full amount of the over-allotment option, for aggregate gross proceeds of $19,734,000. A total of 1,150,000 flow-through common shares of the Company, including those pursuant to the exercise of