Taxes aren’t the real problem with mining in Congo: Gadfly

Our acquisition programme has been on hold for some time now as gold and silver prices consolidated and the mining sector failed to sparkle. Gold has temporarily been sidelined by the pantomime that is European politics.

A gold-futures trading ring in China's central province of Henan has fleeced more than 5,000 investors of over RMB380 billion ($58.62).

So big that it only happens once every four years – The MINExpo is back at the Las Vegas Convention Center and MINING.com will be there.

Equity valuations have so far failed to keep pace with rising bullion prices, but that makes for some outstanding investor opportunities among a few particularly well-positioned juniors that Rick Mills identifies as running ahead of the herd this summer.

Approximately 1,500 workers staged an open-ended sit-in Sunday in the Red Sea gold mine of Sukari, objecting to the decision of the mine’s operating company, Centamin-Egypt, to lay off a number of mine workers.

Peru's Catholic Church intervened in reconciliation talks between the government of President Ollanta Humala and activists protesting the $5 billion Conga copper and gold mine project.

Al Jazeera is reporting that more than 400 children have died from lead poisoning in the past two years in the Zamfara State of Nigeria as a result of artisanal gold mining.

Gold and silver junior Eco Oro Minerals said it will to appeal a ruling by a Colombian court that ordered the Ministry of Mines and Energy to take action to “leave without effect resolution 3452", which is the company’s main mining title.

Chinese producer of bauxite Bosai Minerals Group halted its operations in Guyana on Friday due to violent protests against the miner that left at least three deaths on Wednesday, said the President Donald Ramotar.