Gold mine News

According to the e-auction programme, tender documents can be purchased till March 21.

Photos and videos on social media showed hundreds of people, some of whom could be heard wailing on a hillside around the mine-shaft entrance.

It took the government more than 40 years to locate a huge gold mine in the womb of the Sonbhadra district. Not only this, during the period of slavery, the British had also tried to find a gold mine, but they could not succeed. Due to the search for gold before independence, the name of the hill came to be known as Son Pahadi, since then till now the tribals here know it as Son Pahadi.

Vedanta Ltd has won India`s first-ever auction of a gold mine, a state government official said, as the nation opens up the sector to private companies to curb overseas purchases of the metal that cost it $36 billion last year.

South Africa`s mines are the deepest and among the most dangerous in the world.

Greece`s new leftist government will scrap a controversial gold mine project that has sparked protests in northern Greece, the environment minister said Tuesday.