November 6, 2013 Leonard Melman: Put your trust in precious metals, not governments Continued fiscal stimulus, high debt levels and loss of confidence in governments will lead to the return of big inflation and a consequent big run-up in precious and other metals.
November 6, 2013 Copper mine contamination leads to $20 million settlement for small town residents Residents of a Northern Nevada town are $20 million richer after reaching a settlement with a company accused of covering up a […]
November 6, 2013 Mongolia revokes 106 exploration licences Exploration companies operating in the Asian nation have become collateral damage in a criminal case involving former senior government employees at Mongolia's mining regulator.
November 6, 2013 Taseko cries foul over panel review Taseko says panel wasn't looking at the right tailings storage design.
November 6, 2013 South African ex-union official shot dead in Marikana The man, ambushed outside his home in the mining town of Mooinooi, became the fourth person with ties to the NUM murdered in the platinum belt region in the past…
November 6, 2013 SLIDESHOW: Chile turns world’s largest open pit copper mine into an underground operation The $4.2 billion underground operation is expected to produce 140,000 tonnes of copper per day.
November 5, 2013 Newly developed aluminum alloy stores hydrogen for fuel cells Aluminum-based alloy hydrides are light weight, non-toxic to plants and animals, and contain no volatile gas products, except hydrogen.
November 5, 2013 Peru confirms China’s largest copper producer wants a stake in Las Bambas Peru’s Minister of Energy and Mines Jorge Merino expects sale to close before the 2014 deadline.
November 5, 2013 Switzerland launches probe into refiner Argor for alleged Congo gold laundering Swiss authorities to determine whether the firm knew the gold it handled in 2004 and 2005 came from a militia group in eastern Congo.
November 5, 2013 Caterpillar to shut West Virginia plant Earlier this year the firm recorded a second successive quarterly loss.
Gabon to audit mining deals as reforms start amid IMF talks As part of discussions with the multilateral lender, President Brice Oligui Nguema “has demanded the full publication of all mining agreements". December 19, 2025 | 10:51 am
