Underground operations resume at New Afton after deadly mudslide

De Beers acquired Peregrine and all its Canadian projects in a friendly deal in September for 24 cents a share or $107 million.

The world's no.1 heavy machinery maker reported third-quarter earnings that topped analysts’ estimates, but said the ongoing trade dispute resulted in $40 million in extra costs for materials in the period.

The world’s top diamond producer by value attributed the decline to planned volume reductions in Botswana and South Africa.

Company said feasibility study for its Boto gold asset outlines an economically robust, low cost production project which will produce 140,000 ounces of gold annually on average over a 13-year lifespan.

Objective is to expand upon the Father's Day Vein high grade gold discovery at the A Zone area of the Beta Hunt mine, near Kambalda, Western Australia.

The mine has been closed since 2015 after Yukon Zinc lost over $100 million in each of the three years it was in production.

Private equity firm Waterton Global Resource Management, which now owns about 7 percent of Hudbay, called meeting after the Canadian base and precious metals refused a proposal for board changes.

The government has introduced new regulations to ban asbestos and products containing asbestos, but they don't apply to residues left from mining the carcinogenic material.

The mining and quarrying industry is seeking government funding for an airborne geophysical survey program, considered an essential tool for attracting investment and job creation to the province.