Granada hits high grades including 7.67 g/t over 15 metres

The Africa-focused gold producer saw its first-quarter profit fall16% due mainly to lower bullion prices and reduced production.

In this interview with The Gold Report, Mancini advises investors to go for the best of the best: gold miners with cash flow, great balance sheets, low costs and good management.

It also says it is still too early to determine long-term impacts on fish and drinking water.

New supply from projects won’t be sufficient to replace production losses from aging operations, the World Silver Survey 2015 shows.

Last year, the nation’s silver output reached about 3.3 million tonnes, making it the second biggest producer of the precious metal after Mexico.

BHP Billiton shareholders have overwhelmingly voted in favour of the South32 demerger, a spin off that creates Australia’s third-largest mining company.

Miners in Canada’s most western province remain under pressure, as prices for some key commodities, mainly coal and copper, have continued to fall.

In this frank assessment of everything from gold and diamonds to potash and zinc, Kaiser Research Online author John Kaiser names for The Mining Report readers the companies that could be swept up in a rush to security of supply.

The mines ministry has missed an April deadline to ask courts solve the issue of whether companies may claim they meet black-ownership quotas if shareholders have sold their stakes.