The miner's first-quarter output was higher across most commodities including copper, iron ore and diamonds.
If all major copper mines in Chile halted their operations for a day, the country would lose more than $120 million in copper exports alone.
Mining workers will strike for a day at all of Codelco's divisions and at all large-scale private mines on Tuesday.
Unrest comes against a backdrop of a presidential election year and may heavily weigh on the results.
The incident forced Anglo to halt shipments from the operation, where it produced 6.1 million tonnes of iron ore last year.
The mine, scheduled to start operating in 2016, is expected to produce 5 million tonnes of coking coal a year.
The country's coal industry has faced a number of challenges in recent months.
She said investors need to understand “what it really takes to deliver projects.”
Investors alarmed as they witness what seems to be a repeat of protests which shook Africa's biggest economy last year.
Several delays and mounting development costs are to blame.
Two sources familiar with the situation said Cutifani will replace Carroll.
Mining giants Rio Tinto and Anglo American are selling a 74.5% shareholding in the South African copper company Palabora Mining to a consortium of Chinese and South African firms, in a deal valued at about $611 million.
"Appointing Nhleko as CEO will come out of the blue for international investors."
Well-known executives headhunted from major mining companies such as BHP Billiton, AngloGold Ashanti, Barrick Gold and Xstrata have made the cut to become Anglo American’s new CEO.
Anglo Platinum announced today that it is transferring 51% ownership of its Unki mine in Zimbabwe to locals. The decision came after President Robert Mugabe's administration pressured Amplats to do so.
Cynthia Carroll, the CEO of Anglo American who announced her resignation earlier today, has warned investors that calls for quotas regarding the number of women required to serve on European firms' boards of directors may reduce women to having a token presence.
Where there is smoke… After several reports of Anglo American’s (LON:AAL) shareholders disappointment at both the company’s overall performance and her CEO, Cynthia Carroll, she has finally left the company.
Global credit rating firm Standard and Poor's (S&P) downgraded Wednesday its outlook on Anglo American PLC (LON:AAL) to negative from stable as a result of growing concerns about the effects of South Africa’s mining strikes on the company's mining operations and on the wider economy.
Chris Griffith, CEO of Anglo American Platinum, said the company will not consider wage demands by the striking workers.
Anglo American (LON:AAL) has completed its acquisition of a 40% stake in the De Beers Group from the Oppenheimer family, which has had a major ownership stake in the diamond mining, distribution and marketing company for more than 80 years.
London-based Anglo American and Chile's state-owned Codelco have not come to an agreement, said the world’s largest copper producer Thursday, instead they have agreed to extend the talks until mid August.
Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold company, said a new ruling outlawing mining near glaciers in Argentina will not interfere with its Pascua-Lama mine, one of the world’s largest new projects targeting the precious metal.
The Oppenheimer family, controller of giant diamond miner DeBeers since 1927, has officially let go of its 40% stake in the company after South Africa’s Mineral Resources Minister approved the acquisition by Anglo American.
The world's largest gold company, Barrick Gold, suffered a major setback Tuesday as the Argentine National Supreme Court reversed preliminary injunctions on glacier protection law, now back in full force for all mining companies.
London-based Anglo American and Chile's state-owned Codelco did not came to an agreement on Friday over disputed copper assets which has had the miners engaged in a bitter legal confrontation for months.
London-based Anglo American (LSE:AAL) and Chile's state-owned Codelco have set this Friday as the deadline to resolve a dispute over billions of dollars in copper assets.
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