More than 1.7 million tons of coal have been produced in January-November in Tajikistan, according to the Tajik Ministry of Industry and New Technologies. The ministry clarified that Tajikistan produces two types of coal – stone and brown. Moreover, according to official statistics, by the beginning of December, about 1.6 million hard coal was produced ... Coal production volumes in Tajikistan disclosed
MINEX Forum | January 17, 2019 More than 1.7 million tons of coal have been produced in January-November in Tajikistan, according to the Tajik Ministry of Industry and New Technologies. The ministry clarified that Tajikistan produces two types of coal – stone and brown. Moreover, according to official statistics, by the beginning of December, about 1.6 million hard coal was produced ... 
Dundee Precious Metals’ Chelopech mine and smelter, in Bulgaria, achieved another record year of gold production, at 201 100 oz, in 2018, exceeding the company’s guidance of 190 000 oz to 200 000 oz. Moreover, copper production of 36.7-million pounds was in line with guidance of 35-million to 38-million pounds. Chelopech’s production performance was attributed ... 
After one year of studies, the first mechanized underground chrome mine of Turkey is in operation by Eti Krom, a subsidiary of Yilmaden Holding. The project will add more than 400,000 tons to Turkey’s annual chrome ore production capacity. Eti Krom, a subsidiary of Yilmaden Holding is leading innovations in Turkish chrome mining. Turkey’s largest ... 
Serbia’s mining industry could expand to 5 percent of national output by 2023 if foreign investors keep commitments to plough millions of dollars into copper and lithium production, its mining minister said. The sector currently accounts for 1 percent of Serbia’s gross domestic product. But since 2000, when a decade of isolation of the former ... 
Breaches of contractual obligations totaling AMD 573 million ($1.2 million) by 127 companies have been found as part of the comprehensive analysis in Armenia’s mining industry, Garegin Baghramyan, the acting energy infrastructures and natural resources minister, said Wednesday at a news conference. In his words, AMD 134 million (around $275,700) of the mentioned amount is ... 
Iran Minerals Production and Supply Company, a subsidiary of state-owned Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization, announced through the country’s public broadcaster that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with industry group Iran Mine House and a private company with the idea of developing six small-scale gold and copper mines. With ... 
Exploration spending in the mining sector rose for a second year to near $10 billion as the industry makes a cautious shift to growth and prepares for forecast booming demand for copper and metals used in electric vehicle batteries, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Budgets jumped about 19%, outpacing last year’s gain, which had ... 
Mining is being much discussed in Armenia today. What kind of role has mining in our economy? Seems it is inevitable that it should remain one of the driving powers of Armenia’s economic development. Mining should have a serious role in the current economic situation. Is it so or not, we can discuss. I believe ... 
Miners in Western Australia say they have discovered two huge gold-encrusted rocks that are each estimated to be worth millions of dollars. The largest specimen, weighing 95kg (210lb), was found to contain more than 2,400 ounces of gold, Canadian miner RNC Minerals said. The company said it had extracted gold worth about C$15m (£9m; $11m) ... 
“For fifteen years now my family and I have been investing in organic agriculture, working the land together with my children to build a better life for them in our homeland,” says Dimche Baleski, an organic producer from the municipality of Valandovo, during a public debate on proposed amendments to the Law on Minerals held ... 
Gold fell to its lowest level in 18 months on Thursday as first half year demand sinks to its weakest in almost a decade on the back of waning investor demand. December futures trading in New York dipped to $1,221.50 a troy ounce, the lowest since February last year and now down 5% in 2018. ... 
Serbia’s RTB Bor copper miner and smelter has drawn interest from 11 companies and the tender could take place this week or next, Belgrade daily Politika reported on Wednesday. Serbia has tried and failed three times since 2007 to sell the debt-laden mining complex, which suffered a long period of neglect during the Balkan Wars ...