October 11, 2019 Canadian court approves $3bn securities class action against Barrick Gold Ontario Superior Court of Justice only allowed the suit to deal with alleged misrepresentations in the company’s 2012 environmental disclosures related to the long-stalled Pascua-Lama project.
October 11, 2019 Perth Mint issues world’s first sovereign gold digital token The token is backed 1:1 by GoldPass certificates issued by The Perth Mint.
October 11, 2019 Sirius inks fertilizer supply deal with Qatar’s Muntajat amid Moors project worries The future of the company and its huge fertilizer project beneath the park were thrown into doubt last month, after Sirius’ $2.5 billion funding plan failed.
October 10, 2019 Power restored at First Cobalt’s Ontario refinery First Cobalt has already received financial backing from Swiss mining giant Glencore to study recommissioning the refinery.
October 10, 2019 Tri Origin inks second agreement with De Beers The new deal is for Tri Origin’s Nipissing Cobalt project.
October 10, 2019 Vedanta to shut down Skorpion zinc operations Namibia for four months Skorpion expected to produce around 90,000 tonnes of zinc last year.
October 10, 2019 China’s Zijin Mining set to miss 2019 output targets Zijin now expects to produce around 38.2 tonnes of gold in 2019.
October 10, 2019 Ecuador woes weigh on SolGold’s shares, projects future The company's value has halved since May, when a proposed referendum on mining casted doubts on the miner's future in the Andean country.
October 10, 2019 Zambia owes major mining firms $215 million in tax refunds The government planned to meet the affected mining companies and agree how the outstanding refunds would be paid.
October 10, 2019 Indian miners lobby against government plans for national coal index India plans to create a national coal index to end state-run Coal India's control over prices and privatize the coal sector.
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