October 6, 2023

Pan American Silver suspends operations at La Colorada following armed robbery

There were no physical injuries to personnel in connection with the incident.

October 6, 2023

Strike at Newmont’s Peñaquito mine ends with 8% pay raise

Agreement ends a four-month-long strike at Mexico’s largest gold mine, which cost Newmont millions of dollars a day.

October 5, 2023

Séguéla drives Fortuna to record gold production in Q3

The Yaramoko mine in Burkina Faso also saw a 25% increase in production.

October 5, 2023

Using kaolinite to discover gold, critical mineral deposits

The adsorbing properties of kaolinite might hold clues for companies on the hunt for valuable deposits.

October 5, 2023

Lucapa Diamonds names Selby CEO and MD

Nick Selby, who joined Lucapa in 2014, took the helm in August this year after former boss Stephen Wetherall stepped down.

October 5, 2023

Buenaventura suspends Peru mine on permitting delays

Peru’s top publicly traded precious-metals producer has halted Colquijirca's Tajo Norte mine for up to three years due to permitting delays.

October 4, 2023

Stakeholder collaboration key to successful transition toward non-mining economies

The best way to deal with mine closures is by combining early planning, local-based solutions, and targeted investments, new research has found.

October 4, 2023

Barrick to invest $2 billion in Zambia copper mine expansion

Barrick's plan is to increase Lumwana’s annual production to an estimated 240,000 tonnes of copper per annum process plant.

October 3, 2023

Vale taps BluestOne to repurpose nickel waste in Brazil

Vale will provide up to 50,000 tonnes per year of refinery slag from Onça Puma to BluestOne for the next 10 years. 

October 3, 2023

Adventus, Salazar delay construction of Ecuador project

The companies now expect to start building their Curipamba-El Domo copper-gold project in the second quarter of 2024.