Global public consultation launched on tailings dam standards

One of the two tailings thickeners experienced rake failure last Friday.

Vancouver’s Monument Mining (TSX-V:MMY) has entered into an agreement to purchase 100% of the Tuckanarra gold project in Western Australia.

The gloomy figure includes geologists and mining engineers.

Reviving the China-India ore trade which peaked at 120mtpa in 2009 could be part of a grand bargain when Modi and Xi meet for the first time in New Delhi.

CEO Chuck Jeannes says barring a major technological breakthrough global gold production probably peaked in 2013.

A big corporate break-up à la BHP Billiton is definitively not in his books, he told FT.com.

The figure recently hit a seven-year low, rising concerns over how these cost-cutting measures may delay the country’s next generation of mines.

Here is one interpretation of how much is left on Earth.

The country lifted a long-standing ban on selling uranium to energy-starved India in 2012 and both have been negotiating a nuclear safeguards agreement since then.