Africa



Workers pour the first concrete at Roxgold's Yaramoko gold project in Burkina Faso. Source: Roxgold

Roxgold starts construction at Yaramoko

Roxgold (TSXV: ROG; US-OTC: ROGFF) has kicked off construction at its high-grade Yaramoko gold project in southwestern Burkina Faso, with an aim of starting production in the second quarter of 2016.



Processing facilities at Golden Star Resources' Wassa gold mine in Ghana. Credit: Golden Star Resources

Golden Star aims to go underground at Wassa

Cash-strapped Golden Star Resources (TSX: GSC; NYSE-MKT: GSS) has reported positive feasibility study results on adding an underground mine to its producing Wassa open-pit gold mine in Ghana to bring down costs.


TSX falls on higher oil, gold prices, March 23-27

Canadian stocks fell for a third straight week, following bleak U.S. economic data and rising tensions in the Middle East. Oil and gold prices spiked after Saudi Arabia and its allies launched airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen, who are…



"The Aussie dollar has weakened so much that Australian coal that previously was at the borderline of being profitable, is now profitable," Sultoon says. Image: BHP Billiton

Coal sector woes expected to accelerate, experts say

With coal prices sitting at multi-year lows, almost 17% of coal production this year in the U.S. could be at risk of idling or closure, as total cash costs plus sustaining capital expenditures exceed current market prices, Wood Mackenzie says…



Drillers at Ivanhoe Mines' 95%-owned Kamoa copper project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Credit: Ivanhoe Mines

China’s Zijin Mining invests in Ivanhoe

Fresh on the heels of its 2015 Thayer Lindsley award win for discovering the Kamoa copper deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) has reeled in Zijin Mining as a strategic investor.


Mark Bristow, chief executive of Randgold Resources. Source: Randgold Resources

PDAC 2015: Bristow bristles at folly of gold industry

Each year in Toronto, at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada mining convention, chief executive Mark Bristow holds court at an early morning breakfast meeting for some of the industry’s top bankers, analysts and…


The pit at Barrick Gold's Lumwana copper mine in Zambia in 2012. Credit: Barrick Gold

Zambian royalties confound industry experts

Peter Leon is head of mining regulation at South African law firm Webber Wentzel and is a partner in the firm’s mining practice. The Northern Miner caught up with him a day before the Prospectors &Developers Association of Canada…


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