Elon Musk offers $100 million for best carbon capture innovation

The company is also seeking direct talks with the country's government, as it's been excluded so far from negotiations between controlling shareholder, Barrick Gold, and President John Magufuli.

Mountain Province Diamonds is a 49% participant with De Beers in the Gahcho Kué diamond mine.

Canada's move to drop a 10 percent duty on U.S.-made aluminum cans is good news for Canadian beer makers battling a shortage of tall cans.

A rebound in mining mergers and acquisitions is set to continue into 2019, as a dearth of exploration spending leaves the industry in need of fresh investment.

The news comes barely a week after the company said another worker had been released on bail after being charged with corruption.

Decision comes after the companies received Wednesday a preliminary geological assessment of the property, which shows Heritage contains several targets for modern alluvial diamond placer deposits.

US hedge fund Livermore Partners is calling for an overhaul of the board at Detour Gold Corp and a strategic review, becoming the second activist to target the Canadian mining company.

The United States is seeking to impose quotas on Mexican steel exports as part of a negotiation to remove metals tariffs.

First production from the $5.3 billion underground expansion of Oyu Tolgoi was originally scheduled for early 2020.