UN to deploy satellite-based monitoring to strengthen global mining safety standards
World Mine Tailings Failures predicts 13 catastrophic TSF failures between 2025 – 2029.
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Rio Tinto, Imperial College London launch Centre for Future Materials
Rio will invest $150 million in the Centre over the next 10 years.
Deutsche Bank sticks out among financiers of Peabody’s coal loan
Peabody obtained a $2.1 billion bridge loan to help it pay for the acquisition, according to a Nov. 25 filing.
China’s ‘super-giant’ gold discovery claim sounds ‘aspirational,’ WGC expert says
The Geological Bureau of Hunan Province said it had found more than 35.2 million oz of gold beneath the Wangu gold field in Pingjiang county.
Madison Metals buys large antinomy project in Ontario’s Hemlo gold camp
The Howells Lake project comprises nearly 140 sq. km of mineral claims within the Thunder Bay mining district.
Indigenous mining complicates Brazil’s fight against illegal gold
The Munduruku territory, a reservation the size of Switzerland on the Tapajos river, a major Amazon tributary, has become a hot spot for illegal mining.
Aya pours first silver from new mill at Zgounder
Located in the Anti-Atlas mountains of west-central Morocco, Zgounder is considered the second most important silver producer in the kingdom.
Condor Gold shares surge on takeover approaches
The company reported nonbinding takeover approaches from Calibre Mining and Metals Exploration.
Seabridge’s KSM copper-gold project in British Columbia faces another challenge
Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission voiced the latest objection to development of the copper-gold project.
