Global Snapshot: Gold and silver exploration projects to watch

90,000 ounces per year project will start as an open-pit mine.

A group of scientists is asking international authorities to temporarily halt the approval of new underwater mining contracts until further environmental controls are put in place.

Data showing South African production up 88% in May from a year ago pushes platinum to levels last seen in 2008 while palladium falls to 2-and-a-half year low.

Production is authorized at half the normal rate.

In this interview with The Gold Report, CEO Steve Alfers says there is still more to come for the near-term producer.

Come Oktoberfest you could be partying like it's 1980.

Paper beats rock.

Safe haven no more? Or how to "portray what is evidently a financial and economic crisis as nothing to be concerned about"?

The human rights committee is currently meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of finalizing its report and is hearing from Canadian non-government groups, including Amnesty, and from the federal government.