Finance & business

Bea Mountain Mining Corp. enters into further heavy mining equipment agreements with Mapa Insaatve Ticaret A.S. (Mapa).

Pershing Gold Corp. signs US$6.8 million underwriting agreement.

BBI Group announces that its Railway Agreement 2017 has formally become an Act of Parliament of Western Australia.

Silver Viper Minerals Corp. appoints Alex Peter Tsakumis as Vice President of Corporate Development.

Gill Marcus has been appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Glencore.

Explorator Limitada, subsidiary of Xtract Resources Plc, secures enhanced terms for the western portion of the alluvial concession under the existing June mining contractor agreement.

Tanga Resources enters into binding option agreement to acquire 100% of the issues shares of Coldstone Investments to earn in on the Joumbira zinc project in Namibia.

Alight Mining Solutions appoints Mining Industry Executive Jeff Bryant, as Vice President of Professional Services.

Barrick acquires shares in Reunion Gold Corp. in a non-brokered private placement.

DRA, a global engineering and project delivery company, appoints Christo Visser to its team in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Tronox Ltd announces progress concerning planned acquisition of the titanium dioxide business of Cristal.

Rio Tinto selects its next chairman of the company and succeed Jan du Plessis.

Kibo Mining finalises transaction for 85% stake in the Mabesekwa Coal Independent Power Project in Botswana from Sechaba Natural Resources Ltd, a subsidiary of Shumba Energy Ltd.

Quantum Cobalt Corp. finalises procurement of Nipissing Lorrain Cobalt Project, near Cobalt, Ontario.

K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel, is to terminate potash production at the Sigmundshall site by the end of 2018.