‘World Bank indirectly funding Asian coal projects’
An international team of environmental and financial experts claim in a report that contrary to declarations it made in 2013, the World Bank (WB) has...
Category : Mining News
Adriatic achieves major permit milestone in Bosnia
Adriatic Metals’ exciting Rupice prospect in Bosnia just made a major leap forward, with regulatory authorities accepting the company’s “geological reserves” statement for the Rupice-Juraševac-Brestic...
North Macedonia to probe financing of Kazandol mining project
Copper Investments (COPIN), the investor in North Macedonia’s Kazandol mining project, is seeking an apology from Macedonia’s deputy prime minister for his statement that the...
Romania, Rosia Montana: Seeds of utopia in town almost lost to gold mining
Hope and unease in fertile Romanian village, six years after protests halted plans for Europe’s largest gold mine In 2013, Rosia Montana was almost destroyed to...
Stantec to help Turkey copper miner Eti Bakir transition underground
Global design firm Stantec has been selected to review and evaluate Eti Bakir’s copper mining facility in Siirt Province, Turkey. The copper mine has operated as an open pit...
Tajikistan: Chinese company gets gold mine in return for power plant
TBEA contributed most of the $349 million it cost to build a power plant in Dushanbe A company from China has reportedly been granted a...
Armenia Should Not Give In to Threats by Lydian Armenia
The issues surrounding the future of Amoulsar gold mine continue to be on the Armenian government’s agenda. For the past few months, environmental organizations and...
Will Kyrgyzstan call time on uranium mining?
Soviet-era mining dumps pose threats to communities and the wider region As citizens of a former Soviet state still living with the stains from Moscow’s...
German company to build gold mining enterprise in Kazakh region
German company Aurum Deutschland AG will build a mining and metallurgical plant in the Kordai district of the Zhambyl region of Kazakhstan. The large construction...
Mongolia lawmakers seek to rewrite Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi deal
A group of Mongolian legislators has recommended one of the agreements underpinning Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper mine should be scrapped and another changed,...