Three miners trapped for four days at an underground coal mine in Colombia

Advocacy groups are taking issue at the Mining Arch of the Orinoco River National Development Strategic Zone.

The assays result ranged from 347ppm to 1000ppm Li, the highest values received to date from the project.

Total production for Q3 was 36,496 gold equivalent ounces using gold to silver ratio of 75:1.

Shares in the Mexico-focused precious metal producer dropped as much as 2.4% to 1608 pence in London after the news.

Despite the lower figures, the miner noted it remains on track to meet full year revised guidance of 5.5-6.0 million ounces of silver this year.

Goldcorp says it has commenced ramp up mining operations at Peñasquito.

SolGold says BHP Billiton's offer not in its best interest.

Mining-related income now accounts for just 1.5% of government revenues, down from a peak of over 34% in 2006.

Running at a loss, it cannot afford its share of a recent cash call to continue funding the Minera y Metalúrgica del Boleo mine in Mexico