Sepro Mineral Systems has been awarded a contract by Hemco, Nicaragua’s second largest gold producer, to supply a milling and gravity recovery circuit for the company’s operation in the municipality of Bonanza in north-eastern Nicaragua.

Examples: Worldwide orders for dry-bulk vessels dropped 49% to 9.8 million deadweight  tons in the first half of 2012. The monthly index of new-ship prices in China is now at its lowest point since March 2004.

Baja Mining dropped by almost a third on Friday after announcing class action proceedings seeking $260 million in damages for misrepresenting the true state of affairs at its Boleo project in Mexcio since 2010. It is now worth a paltry $18.7 million on the Toronto big board. During the heady days of 2007 Baja Mining was valued at $836 million.

As released on pr.com, the Camborne School of Mines (CSM) offered a four-day course for 15 to 17 year old students about […]

The board of Codelco has authorized its chief executive, Thomas Keller, to go ahead with feasibility studies to turn its subsidiary Gabriela Mistral into a new business division.

Visual Capitalist has done it again! This time they answer the question 'how rare are 1 million+ oz gold deposits?'

I fully expect the committee to come out and endorse the offer from Nord and to recommend HRG shareholders accept the offer in one of its forms the valuation to come in around the offer price of $1.18B value (840M shares times $1.40).

The global miner joined the ‘disappointing results club’ this morning as the London-listed mining group reported that its first-half operating profit dropped almost 40%.

A deal between Rio Tinto and Toronto-based jeweller Harry Winston Diamond, which is looking to become the sole owner of the Diavik Mine, might be around the corner.