Pan American Silver to pay $2 million for interest in Mexico’s Sandra-Escobar Project

Viewing gold nanocrystals in high resolution.

Opposition parties claim companies lobbied for a last minute change to a bill introducing a harder line on anti-mining protests at sea.

If all major copper mines in Chile halted their operations for a day, the country would lose more than $120 million in copper exports alone.

Ghana now accounts for about 42% of the company's gold output.

Arizona is the main state arguing for residents to be able to use bullion as rightful currency.

US hydrologists and mining engineers are working with Afghans southeast of Kabul to conduct tests.

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The group has installed a 350 kg liquid xenon time-projection chamber, which aims to directly detect galactic dark matter in an underground laboratory, built 1.6 km below the surface.

Mining workers will strike for a day at all of Codelco's divisions and at all large-scale private mines on Tuesday.