Vancouver-based Endeavour Mining (TSX:EDV, ASX:EVR) has closed the full acquisition of Toronto-based Avion Gold Corp. (TSX:AVR), in a deal originally valued at $389 million.
The Chinese coal mining companies that are staring business in B.C., Canada, have been accused of favouring Chinese applicants to fill available positions, as they have posted ads looking for workers who speak Mandarin, not a language spoken by most Canadians.
The World Gold Council (WGC) published Thursday the anticipated conflict-free standard, which aims to restrict production of the yellow precious metal in places where it already fuels or may trigger conflicts and human rights violations.
Firestone Diamonds (LON:FDI) announced Thursday that it has partnered up with First Element Diamond Services and opened a new tender facility at the Antwerp World Diamond Centre, in Belgium.
Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., operator of the Diavik open pit mine in Canada's Northwest Territories, has been chosen as one of the country’s Top 100 employers for the second consecutive year.
A loan rejection to the last asbestos miner in the country followed by Canada’s federal government’s announcement that it wouldn’t oppose to list Chrysotile —the type of asbestos found in Quebec — as a hazardous substance, are the latest signs of the country shelving one of the most polemic mining products once and for all.
Mexico is the most energy secure nation among the world's 25 biggest energy consumers, reported the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in a recent study of the largest energy-consuming countries.
Potash Corp. (TSX, NYSE:POT), Canada's largest fertilizer producer, said Wednesday it was revising its outlook because of delays in reaching contracts with commodity buyers in India and China.
Two former American real estate agents headed to the gold-rich West African jungles of Ghana to find a way to pays their debts, which exceeded $1 million.
Global credit rating firm Standard and Poor's (S&P) downgraded Wednesday its outlook on Anglo American PLC (LON:AAL) to negative from stable as a result of growing concerns about the effects of South Africa’s mining strikes on the company's mining operations and on the wider economy.
