Chile court orders “total and definitive” closure of Barrick’s Pascua-Lama

Some members of Mongolia's parliament sought to limit the number of new resident permits granted to foreigners to 100 per year to protect domestic jobs.

President’s move to allow open pit mining in provinces until now opposed to it is part of a broader plan to double foreign investment to $25 billion in eight years.

Seabridge Gold has bulked up again its already massive KSM gold-copper-silver project in northern British Columbia in both size and grade.

A worker died on Monday night while clearing a blocked ore pass at the company’s Driefontein gold operation in South Africa.

The Toronto-based miner is carrying out a comprehensive environmental remediation program at its Iskut project.

The miner has also scrapped its 2017 dividend after full-year core earnings fell by more than a third because of a ban on unprocessed mineral exports in Tanzania.

Even with rising gold prices and a strengthened balance sheet, the world’s largest gold producer left shareholders with the worst returns among its top North American peers last year.

The U.S. Forest Service signed off on exploration for copper, gold and other minerals on 900 federal acres that lie just outside the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument in Southwest Washington.

Eighteen people have been killed in Venezuela at an illegal gold mine following clashes with security forces.