Sources: BBC
A dispute between two groups of miners over access to gold deposits in La Paz Department, Bolivia, escalates into clashes with six people reportedly killed and several others missing. 2025-04-3
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe launches a new currency, Zimbabwe Gold, backed on gold reserves and foreign currencies amid depreciation of its current currency, the Zimbabwean dollar. 2024-04-5
The Central Bank of Venezuela launches a legal claim against the Bank of England, to try to force the British bank to release €930m ($1bn; £820m) worth of Venezuelan gold it claims it holds. 2020-05-19
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 New York gold and gold futures trader files a lawsuit against the international banks involved in the twice-daily teleconferences that set the price of that metal. 2014-03-4
Gold falls below $1200 per ounce for the first time since 2010. 2013-06-28
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
In reaction to North Korea's latest nuclear test the European Union will tighten sanctions against the country in the form of blocking the trade of gold and diamonds, as well as cracking down on financial ties between them. 2013-02-15
The DAX, CAC 40, Nasdaq drop over 5%, the FTSE 100 index by 4.5%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 3.7%. 2011-08-18
The Australian Commonwealth and Westpac banks cut fixed home loan rates. 2011-08-9