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Here’s what Canada needs to regain leadership in mineral exploration and mining

Mineral and mining industry highlights top priorities at Energy and Mines Ministers’ Conference.

MINING.com Editor | August 22, 2016 | 9:30 am

Stellar Diamonds to ink deal that would create Sierra Leone’s second largest mine

The diamond producer plans to combine its Tongo mine with Octea Mining’s adjacent Tonguma operation.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 22, 2016 | 6:27 am

Rio Tinto walks away from India Bunder diamond project

The project, discovered in 2004, was expected to generate about 30,000 jobs and produce up to 3 million carats a year.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 22, 2016 | 5:20 am

Past gold mining near Yellowknife severely hurt lakes, wildlife — report

More than 20,000 tonnes of toxic arsenic trioxide released from the now-shut Giant gold mine wiped out entire populations of algae and invertebrates from lakes nearby, study shows.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 18, 2016 | 8:12 am

Nazi ‘gold train’ hunt in Poland is back on

About a year after two treasure hunters claimed to have found a Nazi train in Poland, laden with gold and gems, a team of 35 researchers has resumed digging for it.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 15, 2016 | 9:00 am

Diamond giant Alrosa unearths 136.24-carat rock

Currently unnamed, the stone is one of the largest diamonds ever recovered at the Nyurbinskaya open-pit mine.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 15, 2016 | 6:26 am

Draft bill says list in Harare if you want to mine in Zimbabwe

None of the foreign-owned platinum miners operating in the world's number three producer of the precious metal is listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.

Frik Els | August 14, 2016 | 11:34 am