May 31, 2012 Southern Copper evaluating construction of hydroelectric plant in Peru Southern Copper Corp. is evaluating the construction of a hydroelectric plant in Peru to mitigate the impacts that the energy crisis in the second world producer of copper may have…
May 31, 2012 Will glaciers be for mining in Argentina what an iceberg was for the Titanic? An Argentinean government body that is mapping glaciers in the Central Andes has released initial results of its national glacier inventory, showing that many of the country’s mining projects sit…
May 30, 2012 Baja Mining lays off 40% of staff and seeks funding for Boleo Troubled Vancouver miner, Baja Mining (TSE:BAJ), said that it laid off 40% of its staff to conserve cash and admitted that there is "no assurance" that it will find funding…
May 30, 2012 Olympic Dam decision pushed to the wire If the board of the world's largest miner does not make a decision on the giant copper-gold-uranium-silver project in South Australia's outback by 8 December then it would lose all…
May 30, 2012 Anti-mining demonstrators in Peru to start indefinite protest on May 31 Anti-mining protesters in Peru's Cajamarca region are scheduled to start an indefinite protest beggining May 31, local press reported. The main target is US-based Newmont Mining's $4.8 billion Conga mine…
May 30, 2012 Chile’s Codelco incoming boss in England to restart talks with Anglo Chile’s Codelco new CEO, Thomas Keller, has traveled to London this week to hold talks with global miner Anglo American (LON:ALL), hoping to resolve a multi-billion dollar contract dispute between…
May 30, 2012 ‘A decade of rising commodity prices is always followed by two decades of declines.’ Now you tell us! Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley, makes one of the most bearish statements yet on the end of the so-called commodity supercycle.
May 29, 2012 Freeport McMoRan: Labour dispute and lower copper prices pressuring stock I'm not all that thrilled to be owning Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX) right now. While the company's stock has tended to be highly correlated to the price of…
May 29, 2012 State of emergency in Peru after two anti-Xstrata protestors died in clashes with police Peru's government declared a 30-day state of emergency on Monday night after two people were killed and dozens of police officers injured in violent anti-mining protests against Swiss based-Xstrata near…
May 28, 2012 BHP must start Olympic Dam work by year-end, minister says BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP), the world’s biggest mining company, will lose the right to proceed with the $33 billion Olympic Dam copper-uranium expansion in Australia if it doesn’t start work…
Copper price heads toward $12,000 a ton as banks predict further gains With year-end approaching, copper on the London Metal Exchange is up nearly 40%, marking its biggest annual gain since 2009. December 22, 2025 | 07:00 am
