The country's mining regulator will have to issue a new temporary closure plan for the project, including comments from other government offices.

From February 15th to March 13th, a market-cap weighted aggregation of diamond miners in U.S. dollars including ALROSA Joint-Stock Company, Petra Diamonds Ltd, Dominion Diamond Corp, Gem Diamonds Ltd, Lucara Diamond Corp, Stornoway Diamond Corp, Firestone Diamonds Plc, and Mountain Province Diamonds Inc, was down 14.3%.

The company is currently analyzing options to resume work as soon as possible, which includes hiring temporary workers to replace those that have downed tools.

Great Panther Silver's modus operandi is to buy a past-producing mine, get it up and running as quickly as possible, and use the cash flow to fund more acquisitions, says CEO Bob Archer

China releases scorching industry output growth, fixed investment numbers for January-February. Third attempt to restart talks at giant Chile mine fails.

The company expects demand to increase 3% this year, while no new mines are scheduled to come online in the short-term and supply disruptions continue.

After acquiring new equipment last year, Galantas is moving mining work underground at Omagh.

The $400 million-deal will make of Trevali the first pure zinc company with operations in North and South America as well as Africa.

Takeover brings together two of the UK's largest energy services companies.