Soaring prices spur miners’ hunt for growth, fueling indigenous and investor ire

New report "debunks commentary calling for peak gold."

The reason for central banks’ recent gold accumulations has little to do with safe havens and a lot to do with chipping away at the US dollar’s role as the reserve currency.

Licence would have allowed Hecla to pump groundwater to supply the proposed copper and silver mine beneath a Montana wilderness area.

Opponents to mining projects in South Africa are often harassed, threatened and sometimes even killed, according to a report by a group of human rights advocates including Human Rights Watch.

The Canadian miner's second-largest investor, Waterton Global Resource Management, has filed a lawsuit against the base metals producer in a bid to constrain its ability to solicit proxies.

The Chapada copper-gold mine, in the northwest Brazilian state of Goiás, began production in 2007.

Deal creates the world’s largest gold producer by market value, output and reserves.

A South African newspaper reported that the owner of the company is considering selling the operations.

Gold has been consolidating high, quietly basing before its next challenge to major $1350 bull-market resistance.