The combined company will be the world's biggest goldminer, vaulting ahead of the recently merged Barrick-Randgold.

合并后的公司将成为全球最大的金矿公司，超越近期合并的巴里克-兰德黄金公司(Barrick-Randgold)。

Around a hundred people, mostly informal goldminers, were killed in clashes in the north-western desert of Chad, close to the border with Libya.

大约100人在靠近利比亚边境的乍得西北部沙漠的冲突中丧生，其中大部分不是金矿正式工人。

Venezuelan air force troops have been searching for the bodies of 28 goldminers who are reported to have been killed by a criminal gang in a remote jungle area in the east of the country. Leonardo Rocha reports.

委内瑞拉空军寻找28名采金矿工尸首，有报道称他们遭犯罪团伙杀害，地点位于东部某原始森林。请听里昂那多·罗恰的报道。