July 18, 2022 Marathon Gold reaches permit milestones for Valentine The company is moving the Valentine gold project forward thanks to new permits and stakeholder agreements.
July 18, 2022 Botswana Diamonds kicks off drilling at Thorny River’s high-grade area The exploration program focuses on the recently discovered high-grade geophysical area of the diamond project.
July 18, 2022 Barrick close to final deal with Pakistan on $7bn copper project Teams from Barrick and Pakistan are currently finalizing a framework deal to develop the giant Reko Diq copper-gold deposit.
July 17, 2022 Hundreds of hectares of pristine rainforest destroyed by illegal mining in Venezuela A local NGO says that the destruction of Venezuela’s tropical rainforest by illegal miners and armed groups is done with authorities’ consent.
July 17, 2022 Ancient piece of earth’s crust defines location of economically important minerals The almost four billion-year-old piece of the earth's crust lies beneath the southwestern part of Western Australia.
July 17, 2022 Tailings pond collapse kills dozens of freshwater fish in Costa Rica Torrential rains are suspected to be the cause of the collapse of a tailings pond in the western Abangares canton.
July 15, 2022 Cost of expansion at Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi rises again A cost and schedule reforecast now pegs the total project costs at $7.06 billion, almost $1.8 billion higher than its original estimate in 2015.
July 14, 2022 US environmentalists take aim at British Columbia mines Four American environmental groups are pointing to a report commissioned by the BC Mining Law Reform and SkeenaWild Conservation Trust that analyzes the risks of tailings pond failures in B.C.
July 14, 2022 Anglo American, Nippon Steel to work on low-carbon steelmaking They will work on solutions for lower-carbon steelmaking, a process responsible for up to 9% of global greenhouse emissions.
July 13, 2022 Wallbridge spins out nickel assets to focus on gold Canadian company said it wants to focus on its core gold projects Fenelon and Martiniere, and is selling its Grasset and RUM projects in Quebec and its Sudbury and NW…
Argentina’s cradle of Malbec wine is warming up to copper mining The San Jorge copper-gold project, controlled by Zug-based Zonda Metals, would be a first for Mendoza. December 18, 2025 | 10:49 am
