Demanding better working conditions, a group of some 50 Chinese employees of the Zidjin company working on the Cukaru Peki copper mine staged a protest in front of the company headquarters in the city of Bor, Serbia. The protesters said they had been working on the construction of a waste site without a break since […]

The mining sector in Turkey completed 2020 with nearly 4 billion dollars of export, with only 1-percent loss caused by the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Turkey’s mining sector expects to take a giant step in mining activities in 2021 if it receives enhanced government support, said Rustem Cetinkaya, a member of the Sectors […]

The principal operations of Polyus are located in Siberia and the Russian Far East: Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk and Magadan regions and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). As assumed in the findings, continued open pit mining down to the bottom elevation of 70mrl with simultaneous throughput expansion will support the long-term development of the Blagodatnoye mine. Polyus […]

La Romanera has been explored since the 1960s and, through the years, over 20,000 metres of drilling have been carried out on the property. Its historical resource has been estimated at 34Mt at moderate grades including 11.2Mt at high grades. The Spanish cities of Paymogo and Puebla de Guzmán issued a directive stating that mining […]

Eldorado Gold, a low cost Canadian gold mining company, intended to open Romania’s first cyanide based open-pit gold mine. However, the mine proposal has been beleaguered by scandals, operational problems, setbacks and national, and international opposition due to the use of very large amounts of cyanide and the destruction of pastures, forests and even protected […]

Rio Tinto’s Jadar project, which plans to produce lithium near Loznica, will cover more than 2,000 hectares of land, and seven to eight million euros a year, as much as the state would collect from lithium exploitation, is “a miserable sum” for losing so much land. assessed the Dean of the Faculty of Forestry, Prof. […]

Raiden Resources has been granted licence extensions for two Serbian projects as well as a new project from the Serbian Ministry of Energy and Mining and the field programs across all three projects are expected to begin in January next year. Majdanpek West project   The Serbian Ministry of Energy and Mining has approved the […]

Turkey has already broken its record in 2020 by producing a total of 38 tonnes of gold, while Energy Minister Faith Donmez had set an annual target for gold production of 100 tonnes earlier this year in September. Turkey has stumbled upon a huge gold deposit weighing as much as 99 tonnes, with valuation touted […]

On November 26 in parliament, MP from the Prosperous Armenia opposition faction Naira Zohrabyan stated that the Azerbaijani military is on the outskirts of the Sotk gold deposit in Vardenis, Gegharkunik region of Armenia. “The servicemen of Azerbaijan broke the locks … Recently the employees of Sotk called me, saying that they were terrified trying […]