With Ottawa signing off its approval on the Springpole mine project, First Mining Gold CEO Dan Wilton is confident they’ll be ...

In 2023, tensions escalated in Las Naves, Ecuador, where farmers clashed with police during protests against a new environmental consultation process and the upcoming launch of a large-scale open-pit ...

A strip ratio, or stripping ratio, is an important measurement related to the open-pit mining process. Put simply, the stripping ratio is the amount of waste material, also known as overburden, that ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Evidence abounds across Montana of the ruinous environmental legacy of cyanide-based open-pit ...

MEXICO CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's proposal to ban open-pit mining will generate uncertainty and curtail investment for the key sector, mining industry ...

Pre-tax Net Present Value ("NPV8%") of US$2.4B with an Internal Rate of Return ("IRR") of 35% and after-tax NPV8% US$1.6B with an IRR of 27%. 19-Year open-pit mine life with an average concentration ...