Pretium buys back Brucejack royalties from Osisko

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.

The problem is dishonest money. Federal Reserve officials are free to print as many dollars as they wish, completely unaccountable for the purchasing power stolen from your savings. Honest money in the form of physical gold is the solution.

“People set off with very little clue about where they were going, they were swept up in this mass hysteria.”

Iron ore suffered the biggest drop in the past year, losing nearly half its value to reach the lowest price in more than five years.

The precious metal is ending the year nearly unchanged after plummeting about 30% in 2013.

Authorities have yet to take action over what the company has qualified as a potential mine disaster that may cost lives and have serious environmental costs.

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.