Exploratory drilling for copper launches
Venus Minerals Ltd, a Cyprus-based exploration company, has started exploratory drilling for copper in Kokkinoyia, one of its licence areas, it announced on Tuesday. The...
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Suspect in gold robbery fraud remanded in Limassol
A 43-year-old man from Limassol was remanded for five days on Friday by the Limassol court on suspicion of stealing nine kilos of gold in...
Copper, gold prospects in Troodos, British mining company says
A London-based company, Chesterfield Resources, has identified copper and gold prospects in the western Troodos area, the head of the company Martin French told IGTV’s...
Tracking Europe’s waste: ‘There’s gold in them landfills’
Some of Europe’s richest deposits of valuable materials are in the trash, ranging from gold in smartphones to cobalt in electric car batteries, according to a survey...
Swiss flushing away millions in gold and silver every year
While London’s sewers can get clogged with fatbergs made up of grease and diapers, it seems Switzerland’s waste system is flecked with silver and gold. Researchers...
McIlroy hits back after accused of being ‘bored’ by Elkington at US Open
Rory McIlroy and Steve Elkington engaged in a social media spat after the Australian took a potshot at the world number two who missed the...
New life for ancient Mathiatis mine
By Rebekah Gregoriades South of Mathiatis, hidden in the pinewoods at the foot of Strongylos hill, is the oldest mine of the area, which will...
Men arrested in north while digging for gold
Three treasure hunters were arrested in the Turkish occupied north of the island while searching for 20 kilos of gold thought to have been stashed...
Aradippou residents stage protest against gold plant
By Constantinos Psillides A convoy of around 50 cars driven by residents of Aradippou, Larnaca were driven around the village on Tuesday evening to protest...
Shaken investors to stay away from gold as confidence shatters
By Jan Harvey Investors seeking alternative assets are moving on from gold, whose failure to perform when its price was expected to rise and recent...
Copper ore claim near Lefka
THE Turkish Cypriot press claims that over 3 million tonnes of copper and gold ore deposits have been found in two separates areas of Lefka,...
Cyprus could export gold bars within a year
By Evie Andreou Cyprus could be an exporter of golden bars in a year’s time as investors are waiting for the green light from the...
Remand for siblings suspected of burglary
Two Georgian nationals, a 33-year-old man and his sister, 31, were remanded in custody for eight days on Tuesday in connection with a string of...
California couple finds $10m in buried treasure while walking dog
By Dan Whitcomb A trove of rare Gold Rush-era coins unearthed in California last year by a couple as they walked their dog may be the greatest...
Central bank has no plans to sell gold reserves: source (update 2)
Cyprus has no plan to sell gold reserves to fund its €10 billion bailout, officials at the central bank said on Friday. Cyprus’s government in...
Gold sale not only option for Cyprus: finance minister
The government said on Tuesday a sale of its gold reserves was not the only option under consideration to pay down its debt and that...
Second gold medal for Cyprus
Cypriot athlete Nektaria Panayi won a gold medal in the long jump on Thursday in the 17th Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey. This is the...
End of the line for easy fencing of stolen loot
By Peter Stevenson POLICE Chief Michalis Papageorgiou yesterday promised that the move to rein in gold and silver dealers, effective from July 1, would significantly...