The government plans to start collecting half of the royalties from gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, and lithium.

The accident took place on Nov. 7 and internal investigations are underway.

"Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told delegates gathered in Egypt.

The Responsible Minerals Initiative said this week that its auditing process won’t recognize the findings of the International Tin Supply Chain Initiative without companies doing extra due diligence on the source of their minerals.

Gold Fields, which offered to buy Yamana at the end of May, has five business days to match.

The UK Serious Fraud Office showed how Glencore paid more than $28 million in bribes across five African countries over five years to 2016.