April 16, 2019 Mega-mergers will bring short-lived glory if miners ignore innovation — opinion Market signals are already showing troubling signs of this shift in the sector.
April 16, 2019 Kinross Gold restructures leadership team The company is streamlining its senior leadership team.
April 16, 2019 New Gold gets green light for $1.8B Blackwater project in BC As proposed, the Blackwater gold project would produce 60,000 tonnes per day of gold and silver ore, over a mine life of 17 years.
April 16, 2019 Global gold production to hit fresh record in 2019 New report "debunks commentary calling for peak gold."
April 16, 2019 How central bank gold buying is undermining the dollar The reason for central banks’ recent gold accumulations has little to do with safe havens and a lot to do with chipping away at the US dollar’s role as the…
April 16, 2019 Hecla Mining’s water permit for Montana mine revoked Licence would have allowed Hecla to pump groundwater to supply the proposed copper and silver mine beneath a Montana wilderness area.
April 16, 2019 Anti-mining activists in South Africa face harassment, death — report Opponents to mining projects in South Africa are often harassed, threatened and sometimes even killed, according to a report by a group of human rights advocates including Human Rights Watch.
April 16, 2019 Waterton takes Hudbay Minerals to court The Canadian miner's second-largest investor, Waterton Global Resource Management, has filed a lawsuit against the base metals producer in a bid to constrain its ability to solicit proxies.
April 15, 2019 Lundin Mining grabs Brazilian mine from Yamana in $1B deal The Chapada copper-gold mine, in the northwest Brazilian state of Goiás, began production in 2007.
April 15, 2019 Newmont-Goldcorp $10B merger to close this week Deal creates the world’s largest gold producer by market value, output and reserves.
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