Scotiabank, Deutsche, HSBC accused of rigging silver price

The bill, approved by a vast majority, defines the conditions companies must fulfill to get a licence for launching a space mining mission.

Australia's New South Wales state said on Wednesday it would buy back half of a coal exploration licence from China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd , bowing to pressure from farmers and environmentalists opposed to mining on prime agricultural land.

Despite hedge funds' bearish bets, silver price's 14-year uptrend is very much intact and investors continue to pour money into silver-backed ETFs.

According to PwC's Mine 2017 report, Canada's largest mining companies played a key role in the international mining sector's emerging growth.

Ma'aden operates six gold mines in the Central Arabian Gold Region, western Saudi Arabia which contains much of the Kingdom's gold rich ore deposits.

Democratic Republic of Congo has decided to more than double the size of its planned Inga 3 hydroelectric plant to make it more economical, after the $14 billion project was hit by financing problems.

The agency has proposed revoking its 2014 determination banning any large-scale mine in the area where Pebble would be built on the grounds it would damage the region’s key salmon industry.

Gold spiked in Asian hours Wednesday, trading as high as $1,220.35 an ounce compared with a low of under $1,208 hit on Tuesday.

First discovered in 1961, Sukhoi Log in eastern Russia holds 62.8 million ounces of gold.