Eldorado Gold announced the restart of operations for the development of gold and copper fields in Skouries, Chalkidiki, with the aim to begin commercial production by the end of 2025, early 2026. Construction work began in 2017 and have been completed up to 50% with an investment worth 550 million …

Eldorado Gold Corp is open to discussions on potentially paying higher royalties in Greece as it seeks permits needed to restart work at its stalled Skouries development, chief executive officer George Burns said on Monday. The Canadian miner will also seek a strategic partner to help fund the $680 million …

Hellas Gold, the Greek subsidiary of Canadian Eldorado Gold, has filed an Application of Payment demanding a compensation of 750 million euros from the Greek state for delays in its investment project in Skouries. Prompt was the reaction by the Greek Energy Ministry that said Skouries was only one of …

For one more time, Eldorado Gold said it would freeze investments in its Skouries gold mine in North Greece, taking a tough stand in its battle with the country’s government. The decision threatsn the jobs of 500 people. But how many people do really work for Eldorado Gold in Greece? …

Eldorado Gold will face Greek officials in an arbitration court later this month as the country’s government sees the move as the preferred way to settle its differences with the Canadian miner. The country’s Energy Minister George Stathakis met representatives from Eldorado’s local unit Hellas Gold in Athens on Wednesday to discuss …

It was a slim but clear win for Yiannis Michos, mayor candidate for Aristotelis municipality and member of Anti-Gold Mining Movement in Chalkidiki. Michos received 8,031 votes and won with 51,79% over pro-mining mayor Christos Pachtas who got 7,374 votes and 46,95%. Ierissos residents celebrate the win of Anti-Gold movement …

Slowly and gradually it looks as if Canadian Eldorado Gold steps backs and reconsiders its plans of gold mining in Greece and Romania. Official justification is the sliding prices of gold.I don’t how if there were protesters in Romanian project, but things are expected to calm down in Halkidiki peninsula …

The gold mining site in Skouries turned into a boiling cauldron on Sunday as protesting residents moved to hinder the company’s vehicles form approaching the work site. The clash between residents and riot police ended with 7 policemen and one resident in the hospital and three women in handcuffs. Greek …

Tension is high in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, Northern Greece, after police broke down doors and entered into the houses of two suspects, arresting them in front of the eyes of horrified wives and children. According to police the two men, 44 and 33 years old, were allegedly involved in an arson attack at …

Broader clashes between angry residents and police started on Tuesday morning in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, the area where the disputed gold mining triggers tension. Greek media report that the residents started the incidents when they attempted to hinder police units from searching in some homes of the area. picture @katerinaelikaki Tear gas in school …

One person has been arrested in connection to an arson attack on the site of Hellas Gold at the Skouries gold mine in Halkidiki, northern Greece, on Sunday. The attack occurred in the early morning hour sof Sunday, with a group of some 50 people raiding the site, setting vehicles …

Teargas, hurled stones,  minor injuries and detentions make the scenery of the protest in Skouries where several hundreds residents gathered and local organisations on Sunday to protest gold mining facilities. While the incidents are not covered by mainstream television channels, a number of newsportals and tweets ( Twitter #skouries also reporting  in English) report …

Greece’s Environment & Energy Ministry approved the amended Environmental Impact Assessment for the Kassandra goldmines in northern Greece, Eldorado Hellas Gold announced on Thursday. It said the development opens the way for the use of the dry deposition method in safe storage of mining residue at the Skouries mines in …

Eldorado Gold confirmed on Tuesday that it has received installation permits for its Skouries project and its Olympias mine from the Greek Ministry of Energy and Environment. Vancouver-based Eldorado has two operating mines and two development projects in northern Greece but has struggled with delays at Skouries for years. Eldorado …

Mitsotakis government is determined to unblock big investment projects with two of them being Ellinikon at Athens Riviera and the other one the Eldorado mining project in Halkidiki, North Greece. While the Prime Minister is meeting with Spyros Latsis on Elliniko n Project, his energy minister Kostis Hatzidakis met with …

Canada’s Eldorado Gold  has won a key battle in its ongoing row with Greece after an arbitration panel ruled in favor of the company’s technical plans to build a metallurgy plant to process  concentrate mined from Skouries and Olympias in Northern Greece. The panel rejected allegations that a technical study …

Shares in Eldorado Gold were slightly up on Tuesday after the company announced full-year production that came in line with production guidance, but suspended its semi-annual dividend payment “pending the results of the technical reports and potential subsequent capital requirements.” In a press release, the Vancouver-based miner revealed that, including …

Just hours after Eldorado Gold announced it suspends it Skouries project in Northern Greece, another big investor, the Lamda Development, warns the Greek government over violation of terms of the agreement in Hellinikon investment project. In a statement issued on Friday, Lamda Development states that the unconventional decision of the …

Canadian Eldorado Gold made a last minute U-turn and put on hold its previous decision to suspend its operations in northern Greece. Allegedly, its effort to increase pressure on Greece at highest possible level incl. the Canadian prime Minister, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund have failed. A …

Awkward message by the leader of  Greece’s major opposition party, conservative New Democracy. “Social equality is against the human nature,” tribe leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Greeks at the International Trade Fair of Thessaloniki on Saturday. “I have no illusions about a society without inequalities, something like that is against the …