Chaarat Gold gets positive feedback from newly formed Kyrgyz government
Chaarat Gold is a gold mining company which owns the Kapan operating mine in Armenia as well as Tulkubash and Kyzyltash gold projects in the...
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Rio Tinto in Mongolia faces class action suit over Oyu Tolgoi copper project
Rio Tinto operates the mine via its Canadian subsidiary Turquoise Hill, which owns 66% of Oyu Tolgoi. The rest of the mine has been owned...
Kyrgyzstan revives claims against Centerra Gold
The previously withdrawn-but-revived claims relate to 2016 and 2017. They include $106-million for withholding taxes paid to its parent company and $17-million related to payroll...
Interest in Greenland’s rare-earths
Greenland has what the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) calls the world’s biggest undeveloped deposits of rare earth metals. Deposit is a term that means an...
Greenland’s rare-earths potential and the ‘green power’
Greenland has huge resources of metals known as rare-Earths, used to create compact, super-strong magnets that help power equipment such as wind turbines, electric vehicles, combat...
Kyrgyz gold mining at heart of recent political turmoil
The gold mine, in the Jalal-Abad region of western Kyrgyzstan located in the Chatkal district, is owned by Full Gold Mining – a company founded...
Unique mining opportunities in Mongolia
Mongolia’s mineral wealth — primarily coal, copper and gold — has been valued between US$1 trillion and US$3 trillion. The mining industry employs 3.6 percent...
Greenland’s snap election could shape rare-earth access
Among the lofty dramatics of geopolitics, international observers now find themselves paying attention to the operation of a tiny democracy of 56,000 people, most of...
Political influence on Kyrgyz gold mining
The gold mine, located in the Chatkal district of the Jalal-Abad region, is owned by Full Gold Mining – a company founded by Chinese state-owned...
Due to mining boom in Mongolia a river diversion is being planned
Before 2000 there were no mines in South Gobi apart from the state-run Tavan Tolgoi coal mine. But over the past two decades, foreign investment...