Cecilia Jamasmie , Senior Editor

AngloGold Ashanti’s CEO, Mark Cutifani, said gold projects in Colombia are one of the company’s key current priorities and that it has used its first-mover advantage in the country to build a strong position in what he called “the world’s most prospective new gold district.”

London-listed Botswana Diamonds (LON:BOD) said Wednesday it recovered two new diamonds from the on-going sampling programme on the Libongo palaeoplacer project in Cameroon.

Just as the Bronze Age catapulted human civilization to new levels, critical metals are changing the way we live today. Rare earth elements, the group of resources used in the production of several high-tech goods from weapons to cell phones, seem to be leading the way. But why are these elements so important and what exactly are they? The folks at Visual Capitalist have put together one of their famous infographic explaining just that.

The body of a man slashed to death was found Tuesday at Lonmin’s (LON:JSE) Marikana platinum mine in South Africa's North West province, where a protracted wildcat strike has cost the life to 44 people.

Australia’s mining giants are threatening both the government of Queensland and the federal authorities with dropping all of their new projects in response to the state’s surprise increase in coal mining royalties.

Kim Rothstein, the second wife of disbarred US attorney Scott Rothstein, who ran a massive $1.2 billion fraudulent investment scheme, was charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering last week as she hid $1 million in jewellery from U.S. authorities trying to seize his assets to repay investors.

Sri Lanka's diamond-swallowing story took an surprising turn Tuesday as police revealed the 1.5 carat stone gulped by Chou Wan, 32, at a gem show was fake.

Shares of nuclear medicine company Nordion dove close to 40%, down $3.93 at $6.53 in Toronto on Monday.

Massive layoffs are expected before the end of the month at Diavik, in Canada's Northwest Territories, as the diamond mine is set to close its open-pit section.

Labour unrest spread in South Africa on Monday when 15,000 workers stopped operations at a Gold Fields (JSE, NYSE, NASDAQ Dubai: GFI) mine while few workers reported for duty in the fourth week of a stoppage at Lonmin (LON:JSE) , the world’s third largest platinum mine.