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Black Gold claim.

Australian gold miner makes $443 million claim in international court

Cassius filed its claim two years after an investigation revealed a Chinese mining company had plundered tens of millions of dollars in gold from its veins.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Edward Adeti

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The alleged trespass on the Australian concession.

‘A bunch of pirates who are here to loot’: New claims against Chinese miner

The Chinese miner at the centre of a $395 million lawsuit by an Australian company has been accused of trespassing on another miner’s land.

  • Edward Adeti and Eryk Bagshaw
Soldiers watch on as a home is bulldozed in Talensi.

Blood gold: Soldiers in Ghana kick residents out of homes near disputed China-owned mine

Residents who had planned to organise a press conference this week to outline their concerns about the Shaanxi expansion have been arrested.

  • Edward Adeti and Eryk Bagshaw
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Inside the secret and deadly Chinese heist of millions in gold from an Australian mine

The fire at the Jinapor residence in Accra

Ghanaian minister’s home catches fire while he is in Australia

The home of the minister involved in negotiations over a deadly $395 million mining dispute between an Australian and Chinese state-linked miner has caught fire in Accra.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
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Ghana to probe Australian mine theft, question Shaanxi officials

Our Blood Gold year-long investigation has prompted the Ghanaian Minerals Commission to investigate corruption and murder allegations against a Chinese state-linked company.

  • Peter Milne, Eryk Bagshaw and Edward Adeti
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Australian minister to fly to Africa as local leader labels Chinese mine ‘bloodthirsty’

The deadly multimillion-dollar dispute between an Australian and a Chinese state-linked gold mine in Ghana is reaching a tipping point.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Edward Adeti
Cassius Mining CEO James Arkoudis

‘No dumb luck punt’: Cassius boss defends gold mining investment in Ghana

Cassius chief executive James Arkoudis has vowed the company will get justice for its shareholders in its $395 million dispute with a Chinese state-linked mine and the Ghanaian government.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Ghana’s natural resources minister Samuel Jinapor.

Ghanaian minister to face Cassius in Australia

Samuel Jinapor is expected to be confronted by Cassius’ directors over the $395 million lawsuit in Perth.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Edward Adeti
The town of Gban, Talensi, where the Shaanxi mine is located.

The colourful past of Cassius: Inside the Australian miner now in a $395 million battle

Two investors with criminal histories involving a 28-kilogram cocaine bust and a $16 million fraud were part of the team that has now been forced out of Ghana.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Edward Adeti

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