Mine trucks at Newmont’s Porcupine mines. (Image courtesy of Newmont Goldcorp | Flickr) Newmont Corp. (NYSE: NEM) plans to raise $2 billion in cash through mine sales and project divestments following…
Drilling at the Idaho project. (Image courtesy of Hercules Silver Corp..) Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD) announced on Monday a C$23.4 million ($17m) investment in Hercules Silver (TSX-V: BIG), boosting its stake in the junior…
Cobre Panama mine. (Image: First Quantum Minerals.) Panama legislators approved on Thursday a Bill that originally sought to revoke First Quantum Minerals’ (TSX: FM) contract with the country’s government covering…
MC MINING, the coal development firm, faces more corporate turmoil after it emerged today it was the subject of a takeover proposal. The offer is from Senosi Group Investment Holdings…
DIGGING in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, 25km from the Red Sea, geologists for Centamin, a UK-listed gold miner, turned amateur archeologists when they stumbled on evidence of mining dating back 3,000…
The railway runs from Lobito, on Angola’s Atlantic coast, 1300km westwards to Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with a connection to Zambia. Credit: Ministry of Transport, Angola The…
Stillwater and East Boulder mines are located on the front range of the US Beartooth Mountains. (Image courtesy of Sibanye-Stillwater.) Precious metals producer Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE: SSW)(NYSE: SBSW) warned on Thursday of further…
The productivity and safety of BME’s mobile manufacturing units (MMUs) is enhanced by smart technology, making real-time data available on the loading of bulk emulsion into blastholes. Smart MMUs are…
On September 27, the men who run football in Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda were high-fiving and popping champagne. Meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo, the governing body of African…
Dearsan Shipyard has launched the first of two 76-metre-long offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) for the Nigerian Navy during a ceremony in Turkey. The launching ceremony, held on 26 October at…