Congo officials vow to tackle child labour at mines

Pre-tax profit for the year was a bit over US$3 billion, a decline of $760 million when compared to 2013.

In the meantime, the miner will receive silver produced at three other Barrick operations in South America.

Oceanagold (TSX, ASX:OGC), an Australia-based gold producer, will start winding down its New Zealand mines to focus on lower-cost production in the Philippines, where it runs the Didipio copper-gold mine north of Manila.

The concept of a government-backed initiative to manage CSR abroad is being looked at by various nations, including Canada and the U.K.

The court refused to consider the appeal on procedural grounds. Chile's environmental regulator will now have to re-evaluate the administrative fines for over $16 million it imposed on the project.

No rally for the red metal in 2015, but all bets are off if China's State Grid Corp finally deploys its $65 billion fixed investment budget.

Despite the government announcement Tuesday that it will push ahead with plans to more than triple mining royalties.

There currently are several practical and legal reasons for companies to have a CSR strategy in place, says expert in the field Elizabeth Adey, in this interview with MINING.com.

"You want to buy stocks when they are unknown, unloved and undervalued."