Tribal warfare kills at least 20 near Porgera mine in PNG, estimates UN
The mine was briefly forced to cease operations as the fighting intensified, according to media reports.
Gold miners are expanding their focus in Africa to the northeast of the continent, a region that in the past, was largely bypassed by gold explorers.
Northeast Africa already has a few gold deposits in the threshold size of one million troy ounces (the size limit the usually piques the attention of bigger miners.)
