Sources: BBC
At least fourteen people are killed when a gold mine collapses in El Callao, Bolívar, Venezuela. The military sets up a command post to recover the bodies. 2025-10-13
Brazilian President Michel Temer abolishes the 46,000 km 2 National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca) ecological reserve, which spans the borders of Amapá and Pará states in northern Brazil. More than 20 domestic and multinational firms have expressed an interest in accessing the area's deposits of gold, copper, tantalum, iron ore, nickel and manganese. 2017-08-25
A report by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum finds that total global investments, including gold and stock, by public investors, such as central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and pension funds, now total $29.1 trillion. 2014-06-15
Mining giant Rio Tinto, continuing a program of asset divestment, asks Macquarie Group to find a buyer for its interest in the Australian Northparkes copper and gold mine. 2013-04-4
Stock markets in Asia and Australia fall on the back of a sharp decline in Wednesday's trading on the New York Stock Exchange. 2011-08-11
The Dow Jones Industrial Average on the New York Stock Exchange as world stock markets recover after recent falls. 2011-08-9
The Australian and New Zealand dollars continue to fall as investors seek security with the Aussie dollar falling below parity. 2011-08-9
Stock markets in Asia, Australia, and the United States fall further after the credit rating of the United States is downgraded with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling by over 634 points, 5.55%. 2011-08-8
The Argentine Senate passes a controversial law protecting glaciers in the Andes Mountains and prohibiting drilling for oil and other resources, hindering Barrick Gold from drilling for gold in the Pascua Lama mine. 2010-09-30
A team of American geologists and Pentagon officials say they have discovered vast mineral wealth, including iron, gold and lithium, estimated to be worth nearly US$1 trillion, in Afghanistan, though other senior officials say this has been known since at least the 1970s. 2010-06-14