Hochschild to restart operations at Peru mines

While production in August was below normal due to the ongoing disruptions to the company’s operations, Gran Colombia expects to meet its annual production guidance for 2017 of 150,000 to 160,000 ounces of gold.

Gold prices jumped to their highest in almost a year as a weaker dollar and escalating tensions between the United States and North Korea

Active mining concessions add up to 25,716

The Lenin Moreno government has recently granted 237 mining concessions to private companies

The massive project is expected to process close to 80,000 tonnes of copper ore a day.

Acquisition makes of the Canadian miner one of the few multi-asset, low-cost global zinc producers.

Government said it expects to settle its differences with the Canadian miner, which is developing the Skouries and Olympias projects in northern Greece, where it also operates the Stratoni mine.

The Cascabel project is located in the northern portion of the Andean copper belt in Ecuador, renowned for hosting almost half the world’s copper known reserves.

Federal judge Rolando Spanholo said opening the area known as Renca to mining can only be done by an act of Congress under the constitution.