December 28, 2011 Areva in talks to sell Eramet nickel mining stake French nuclear giant Areva says it is in talks to sell its 26% stake in major nickel miner, Eramet (formerly Soc. Le Nickel) with major operations in New Caledoinia.
December 28, 2011 Freeport’s Grasberg copper-gold ops contractor under pressure Indonesian contractor KPI under pressure to settle with Unions to bring the strike at the massive Grasberg copper-gold mine to an end.
December 27, 2011 The largest storage dome in South America, constructed over an operating stockpile Located at over 4,000 meters above sea level in the Altiplano of the Andes Mountains, the San Cristobal Mine is the largest mine in Bolivia. The open-pit silver, lead and…
December 27, 2011 Mining – Chile – Mining regions receive just 5 pct of funds collected from royalty Chile's mining regions are receiving just 5% of the funds collected from the royalty system being applied in the country to mining companies, according to lower house member Carlos Vilches…
December 27, 2011 Mining – Chile – Mining represents 70.1 pct of authorized FDI in 2011 Chile saw authorized foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2011 increase 4% compared to the prior year to a record US$13.8bn, of which US$9.67bn or 70.1% corresponds to mining, the economy…
December 27, 2011 Mining – Chile – Teck submits EIA for waste handling center at Quebrada Blanca Vancouver-based Teck (NYSE: TCK) submitted an environmental impact assessment (EIA) to the Chilean environment ministry's (MMA) evaluation service for a US$1mn project to build a new, integrated waste...
December 27, 2011 Christmas light recyclers learn their tricks from miners The Atlantic profiles Christmas light recyclers, a job that moved to China when the environmental restrictions in the U.S. became too onerous.
December 27, 2011 New partial roasting process to purify contaminated copper and gold concentrates Outotec has come up with two new roasting processes for eliminating impurities from copper and gold concentrates.
December 26, 2011 Metals – Chile – Two Codelco Ventanas executives to be charged over sulfur dioxide leak Two executives from Chilean state copper producer Codelco's Ventanas division will be formally charged by the Quintero district attorney's office regarding their alleged responsibility for a sulfur di...
December 26, 2011 Privatization – Chile – Codelco says agreement with Anglo American looks improbable The chances for a negotiated solution to the conflict between Chilean state copper producer Codelco and London-based Anglo American (LSE: AAL) have faded following the latter's legal action for allege...
BHP puts Anglo in ‘rearview mirror’ as CEO eyes Canada copper “I’m hopeful that in five years time, 10 years time, there’ll be further investments that we can make into Canadian resources,” Mike Henry said. December 19, 2025 | 12:32 pm
