Kootenay Silver to buy high-grade silver project in Mexico
The Columba silver project has not been systematically explored since the Mexican Revolution.
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Tasca continues to expand in BC
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BHP to pay $390m to settle tax bill dispute over Singapore business
The issue relates to the amount of tax BHP owed for selling its Australian commodities via its Singapore marketing business — or allegedly shifting its profits offshore.
Vale told to pay $26.8m in damages to indigenous tribes
The company's Onça Puma nickel mines blamed for contaminating the Catete river, which prosecutors said had a "severe" impact on the Xikrin and Kayapo tribes.
China’s fight against smog makes palladium 2018’s best metal
Palladium prices are shattering record highs.
Montana Resources uses high tech to solve bird problem
Since the mid-1990s, the company has run a waterfowl observation and hazing program at its 182-hectare Berkeley Pit but in late 2016, several thousand snow geese died at the toxic pit.
Iran to develop small-scale gold mines
The Hassan Rouhani government is kickstarting a program for the revitalization, activation, and development of the country’s artisanal mines.
Can central banks go broke? A question for India: Andy Mukherjee
Raiding a little more than half of the $95 billion foreign-currency and gold revaluation account would force the RBI to sell an identical proportion of the related assets, or $190 billion. That would trigger a “cataclysmic deflationary shock” for the economy.
Silver becomes key component for ultra-efficient solar cells
"This constitutes a first step towards the production of novel electrodes for highly efficient solar cells and lights.”
