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Peak gold?
Goldcorp chairman Ian Telfer on why gold mining production has begun to slump
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Eurovision goes underground in Romania
Romania’s semi-final heat for the Eurovision song contest 2018 went underground…quite literally. It was organised 86-metres underground in Turda salt mine, a popular tourist site in Cluj county. Organisers faced a series of technical...
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Going green: Poland’s battle with ‘tradition’
Tomasz Szczerba is the Mayor of Wojkowice, a town that’s home to an EU-funded solar farm, which helps to power a waste water treatment works. He wants to see more solar facilities across Poland, but says it means fighting ‘tradition.’...
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Aboriginal art against mining
Aboriginal community leaders in Australia’s Northern Territory are using the power of political art to spread protest messages about losing control of their land to mining companies. Their collection of works is part of an exhibition...
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Getting into crypto-business
Harry Pokrandt is CEO of HIVE Blockchain, among the first companies to allow people to invest into crypto-mining
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Re-living the Bre-X mining scandal
The release of the movie Gold is stirring up unpleasant memories for some Canadians, CBC's Zoe Todd reports
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Burkina Faso wants to share its gold wealth
We are a hundred meters underground, in the tunnels of the Bagassi gold mine. It’s one of eight in Burkina Faso and operated by Canadian company Roxgold. Its goal is to mine 3 tons of gold every year for 10 years. Gold has become the...
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Brazil: dam collapse lawsuit
Federal prosecutors in Brazil have filed a civil lawsuit against iron mining company Samarco and its owners, Vale and BHP Billiton over an environmental disaster last...
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China to lay off 1.8 million coal and steel workers to cut overcapacity
Around 1.8 million Chinese coal and steel workers are to be laid off as Beijing tries to reduce overcapacity. That is about 15 percent of the total workforce in those industries with those people being “reallocated”. It is not clear when...
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EU ministers fret over Chinese steel ‘dumping’
The EU needs to tighten up its anti-dumping rules to protect its steel industry from cheaper Chinese imports. That’s according to some EU trade ministers who met in Brussels on Monday. Ministers from seven different countries wrote the...
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Commodity markets rout slams miner Glencore’s profit
Mining company and commodity trader Glencore has revealed that 2015 was a grim year with profit down by almost a third as prices for copper, nickel, zinc, iron-ore and coal slumped to multi-year lows. As a result the Swiss-based group is...
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Rio Tinto goes back on dividend promise after net loss for 2015
Bad news for stockholders of Rio Tinto – its share dividends this year will be at least half what they were last year. That comes after the world’s second largest mining company slumped to a net loss for 2015 and posted its worst...
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Toxic mercury poisons miners by the millions
About 15 million people use mercury in processing ore as they mine for gold in developing countries
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Rio Tinto cuts spending forecast for 2016
Rio Tinto, the world’s second-largest mining company, has cut its capital spending forecast for next year to $5 billion. Its previous estimate was less than $6 billion. Citing the group’s balance sheet discipline, Rio’s chief executive...
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Sask. strives to help Canada be an energy and mining superpower
Saskatchewan's energy minister says the province can draw billions in mining investment in 2025, but the situation could be better.
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Na-Cho Nyäk Dun chief visits site of landslide at Victoria Gold mine
For the first time since the Victoria Gold heap leach failure and landslide, Na-Cho Nyäk Dun Chief Dawna Hope visited the site. Hope says she's frustrated with the government's response, and sad about the long-term effects on her...
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Davis Day ceremony marks 99th anniversary of event
People gathered in Glace Bay Tuesday to commemorate a New Waterford coal miner who was shot and killed by company police while on strike in 1925. While many reflected on Cape Breton's coal mining history, others wondered about the future...
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Hundreds attend national conference in St. John’s to see latest tech for the bottom of bodies of water
The Canadian Hydrographic Association Conference has 300 attendees from 17 countries in St. John’s — with a goal of learning more about what’s under the surface of lakes, rivers and oceans. The CBC’s Todd O’Brien saw some of the latest...
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Indonesia floods and landslides: Several killed, more missing after heavy rains
Floods and landslides have hit a mountainous region in central Indonesia
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Sights and sounds from the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference
The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference is the biggest mineral exploration event in the country, and one of the largest in the world. Vendors and industry insiders show up every year at the Metro Toronto...
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Venezuela mine collapse: 16 bodies recovered, more feared buried
Illegal gold mine in Venezuela collapsed, trapping and killing workers due to lack of oversight. More accidents likely.
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At least 50 dead after open-pit gold mine collapses in Venezuela
Family members in Venezuela wait to hear about their loved ones after they went missing in an open-pit mine collapse
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Ugandan salt miners risk their health for meagre pay at Lake Katwe
Ugandan salt miners lack protective gear, face health risks and earn little. Climate change worsens working conditions.
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Sales of lab-grown diamonds starting to sparkle
Global sales of lab-grown diamonds jumped nearly 40 per cent last year and big brands like Pandora and Swarovski are catching on, but some experts caution the stones don’t hold as much value as natural diamonds.