First new all-electric mine dumps diesel; cuts costs, pollution
Hundreds of feet below thick forest blanketing the Canadian Shield, a squad of near-silent, battery-powered machines are tunneling toward gold in an experiment to ditch diesel.
Global copper output up 7.1 pct in first three months of 2018
Miners around the globe produced 330,000 more tonnes of copper…
New York-based equity fund buys Ireland-focused Dalradian for Cdn$537m
Shares in the gold miner went ballistic over the news,…
Lumina Gold, First Quantum ink deal to advance exploration in Ecuador
First Quantum will invest $1.5 million to advance exploration work…
Newmont sells stake in Yanacocha gold mine to Japan’s Sumitomo for $48 million
Sumitomo’s move comes as Japanese trading companies have been grabbing…