Bolivian Labour Minister, Daniel Santalla, signed an agreement on Sunday with the leaders of the Andean local community of Malku Khota who were holding five employees of Canadian South American Silver captive.
Over the past few days workers of South American Silver's Bolivian subsidiary, drill service contractors and members of local indigenous communities which support the project have been detained illegally by a group of individuals protesting the company's Malku Khota project. Some of these individuals have already been released, but government authorities and the company are seeking release of all detained individuals so that safe and constructive dialog with all communities in the project area can occur.
The contiguous claims adjoining Gold Reach cover 1,800 hectares and are situated on the northeast boundary of their 100%-owned Ootsa Property.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission will vote in August on controversial rules requiring extensive reporting from companies using ‘conflict minerals’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Marathon Project, located near Lake Superior in Ontario, has anticipated annual production of about 200,000 ounces of palladium and platinum and 37 million pounds of copper.
INTERNATIONALLY recognised bird habitats will be destroyed if Newcastle's fourth coal terminal goes ahead, opponents of the proposal have said. The Newcastle Coal Terminal Action Group, which is made up of 14 of Newcastle's community groups, held a sit...
Locals from the Bolivian Andean region have kidnapped two engineers of Canadian South American Silver and are demanding the immediate release of their leader.
Taking part in the Cambridge World Resource Investment Conference, geologist and minerals maven Brent Cook, who also serves as Exploration Insights president, CEO, publisher and author, said he found more investors there looking for reasons to sell than to buy.
The much-anticipated Tesla Model S, which started production last week, uses a lot of aluminum, and that has industry groups pleased as punch.
Orbite Aluminae Inc. (TSX:ORT) (the "Company") is proud to announce that an independent analysis of samples of individual rare earth oxides (REO) and rare metal oxides (RMO) has confirmed a 23% increase in recovery rates over the figures published in the Revised Preliminary Economic Assessment Technical Report dated May 31, 2012, thereby increasing value of its smelter grade alumina (SGA) production project.