Drilling at Harmony Gold’s Kusasalethu mine, in western Gauteng, was halted on Monday after a worker was killed and another injured in a blasting accident.
Canada’s Osisko Mining Corp. (TSX:OSK) announced Monday it will buy Queenston Mining Inc for about $550 million to get access to gold-rich properties in the Kirkland Lake area in north-eastern Ontario.
The United States will surpass both Saudi Arabia and Russia becoming the world’s top oil producer by 2017, says the latest yearly world energy outlook published Monday by International Energy Agency (IEA).
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit northern Myanmar on Sunday, collapsing a gold mine, a bridge, damaging several old Buddhist pagodas and leaving as many as 12 people feared dead.
Gold edged up on Monday, after posting its biggest weekly gain since late August, on safe-haven buying driven by worries the United States could return to recession if Congress fails to reach a deficit-reduction deal.
Supervisors at a BHP Billiton's subsidiary Illawarra Coal in the Australian state of New South Wales have voted to strike for up to two weeks over a pay dispute.
Canadian miner Yamana Gold Inc. (TSX:YRI) (NYSE: AUY) is refusing to give up on its plans to re-open the old “Agua de la Falda” gold mine in Chile’s northern Atacama region, a particularly sensitive area in terms of energy costs.