Brumadinho won’t break Vale, but the piper still hasn’t been fully paid
Vale, one of the world’s biggest producers of iron ore and nickel, has been in the news a lot lately. The Brazilian miner has been making strikes towards “green” credentials…
Legal Affairs
Kumtor exceeds 2021 gold production guidance under nationalized management
The Kumtor Gold Company (KGC) says the nationalized Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan had exceeded production guidance for 2021. Under the new external management, which took over the asset when…
Otso Gold CEO detained in Finland on suspicion of fraud
A former CEO of Otso Gold (TSXV: OTSO), Brian Wesson, has been detained in Finland and remains in pre-trial custody under criminal suspicion of aggravated embezzlement and payment fraud, the…
Colombian regulator shelves AngloGold’s permit request for Quebradona
AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU; ASX: AGG; JSE: ANG) said today that Colombia’s environmental regulator or ANLA, its initials in Spanish, had shelved the permit application for its Quebradona copper-gold project. …
Leftist Castillo emerges as likely winner of Peru’s contested presidential election
Socialist candidate Pedro Castillo is emerging as the winner of Peru’s June 6 presidential elections, with 99.6% of the votes counted. According to the latest update, Castillo had about 50.2%…
Almaden case headed to Mexico’s Supreme Court
An appeal of an April 2019 lower court ruling that jeopardized Almaden Minerals‘ (TSX: AMM; NYSE-AM: AAU) Ixtaca gold-silver project in Puebla state – and the validity of Mexico’s mining…
Resource nationalism surge spells rough times for miners
Resource nationalism has spiked in more than 30 countries over the last year and more than half of those nations are key producers of minerals and hydrocarbons, a new study reveals….