Expert warns against reopening Stilfontein Mine as residents push for jobs
Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...
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Orion completes BEE transaction for Okiep, progresses feasibility studies
The suspensive conditions to transactions between ASX- and JSE-listed Orion Minerals’ New Okiep Exploration Company (NOE) and New Okiep Mining Company (NOM) and historically disadvantaged South ...
'They called them troublemakers, but they were our survival': Stilfontein struggles after illegal mining crackdown
In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...
Mining company to sell some land in Penobscot County
PENOBSCOT COUNTY, Maine — Canadian mining exploration company Wolfden Resources Corporation will sell 3,770 acres of the company’s 6,862 acre timberland property in northern Penobscot County to one of ...
Discovery Silver to acquire Newmont's gold mining operations at Porcupine for $425M
Gold miner Discovery Silver said on Monday it would acquire its peer Newmont's stake in Porcupine Operations in Ontario, Canada, for $425 million.
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South African miner describes horrors for those who spent months underground
An all-formats team reported from the scene of a South Africa mine disaster where hundreds of men working illegally ...
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The Discovery of Gold on This Date in 1848 at Sutter’s Creek Kicked Off the California Gold Rush and Transformed America
Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and by the end of the decade it was over. But not its impact: The Gold Rush may ...
South Africans demand answers after mine tragedy: ‘How many more must die?’
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...