Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s order that encourages citizens to mine the moon and other celestial bodies for commercial purposes. The government body likened the…
A new means of exploiting previously overlooked zones of gold mineralization may prove to be the type of disruptive technology needed once the global COVID-19 pandemic is over. Called sustainable…
Global gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) had US$23 billion, or 298 tonnes, of net inflows, in the first quarter of 2020 – the highest quarterly amount ever and the largest tonnage…
The mining industry is fraught with capital cost overruns — a quick internet search will turn up many examples. The results quickly highlight that as many as two-thirds of mining…
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) Chairman Simon Thompson told shareholders the company will proceed with a dividend payment announced in February of $2.31 per share, or $3.7 billion, and…
Canada’s Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ), the world’s largest publicly traded uranium miner, is placing its plant at the Port Hope conversion facility in Ontario in a temporary safe shutdown…
Marathon Gold (TSX: MOZ) has released the results of a prefeasibility study on its Valentine gold project in Newfoundland, which envisions a 12-year open pit mine, producing an average of…
SolGold’s (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG) Cascabel copper-gold asset in Ecuador received a boost on Tuesday after a long-awaited third resource update for Alpala, the project’s main deposit, showed larger than…
This episode features a fireside chat with senior executives from Kinross Gold, including president and CEO Paul Rollinson, Chief Financial Officer Andrea Freeborough, Chief Technology Officer Paul Tomory, Corporate Development,…
More than a year after the tailings disaster at Vale’s (NYSE: VALE) Brazil Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine killed 270 people, the mining industry is still slow to adopt…
MINING.COM’s ranking of the world’s 50 largest mining companies based on market value shows a beleaguered industry at the end of the first quarter 2020, despite a resurgent gold price…
The economic fallout from COVID-19 is mounting sharply. Last week, unemployment claims in the United States hit a record 6.6 million, up from 3.3 million the previous week, and the…
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