In Colombia, eighty-seven percent of the country's gold mines have no mining title and only 3% possess environmental licenses. High mining and environmental lawlessness, the failures of formalization programs and the inadequacy of importation controls on the supply are the cause of the high ...
The operation is both a blow to illegal mining and a strike at armed groups that profit from illicit mines in this conflict-ridden country. More than 100 soldiers, police and anti-riot officers arrive onboard four aircraft in the southeastern Triangulo del Telembi region. Their mission ...
Major gold mines or enterprises Name Ownership Consolidated - Mined Gold (koz) Attributable - Mined Gold (koz) Buriticá Gold Mine, Colombia 69.28% 247 171 Zeravshan, Tajikistan 70% 208 145 Longnan Zijin 84.22% 178 150 Norton, Australia ...
says Rojas. A team of engineers is then sent to investigate. Arm currently works with eight fully certified mines, employing around 2,000 miners. Since 2015, Nobel Peace Prize medals have been produced with Fairmined gold from small-scale mines in Colombia and Peru. ...
Its primary assets are the Nechi alluvial mine in Colombia and the Hemco property in Nicaragua. Nechi features a cyanide- and mercury-free recovery extraction process using gold-hosted sands mined from closed ponds. The company's Hemco operations consist of the Panama and Pioneer mines, ...
08/05/2017[-]From one of the world's richest gold mines to South African ghost town 08/04/2017[-]Milestone for major new WA gold mine 07/31/2017[-]New Talisman Gold Mines Limited Quarterly Activities Report 07/29/2017[-]Six killed in explosion at illegal gold mine in Colombia ...
Mines in the region of the Upper Nile near the Red Sea and in the Nubian Desert area supplied much of the gold used by the Egyptian pharaohs. When these mines could no longer meet their demands, deposits elsewhere, possibly in Yemen and southern Africa, were exploited. Artisans in ...
Gold mines are potential hotspots for HIV transmission. Sex work seems to be very frequent in gold mining and HIV prevalence has been shown to be higher in sex worker populations [50,51,52,53]. Given the large confidence interval of HIV prevalence, the estimate should be interpreted with cau...
Founded in 2007, today, B2Gold has operating gold mines in Mali, Namibia and the Philippines and numerous exploration and development projects in various countries including Mali, Colombia and Burkina Faso. B2Gold continues to forecast total consolidated gold production of between 1,0...
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) and large-scale mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon region is potentially harmful to nature, and its impacts are associated with environmental degradation and deterioration of people’s health. So far, limited efforts have been directed at exploring the curre...