June 18, 2019 Codelco sweetens contract offer in bid to end mine strike Striking miners and police clashed earlier on Tuesday, with authorities using rubber bullets and tear gas as workers tried to block access to the state-owned firm's mine.
June 18, 2019 Copper price surges as supply worries return Optimism US-China trade talks are back on track also lifts sentiment.
June 18, 2019 Chile confident of turning around low copper productivity as global competition bites “Copper mining in Chile has become more and more difficult as ore bodies decline, the target rocks are increasingly harder, and water is getting far more expensive.
June 18, 2019 Rio to begin drilling at Janice Lake copper project Initial drill targets continue to be defined with several high priority areas.
June 17, 2019 Supreme Court okays work at Taseko’s New Prosperity Getting permission to mine in British Columbia may be difficult, but it’s not impossible it just takes patience
June 17, 2019 Chile’s Chuquicamata copper mine operations halved amid strike More than 3,000 unionized workers at the world's top copper producer's sprawling Chuquicamata copper mine walked off the job last week.
June 17, 2019 First Quantum ships first copper concentrate from Cobre Panama mine The key milestone for Cobre Panama comes at a time when the market is in need of high concentrate volumes due to recent supply disruptions.
June 17, 2019 Zambia’s Mopani Copper Mines shuts down smelter Mopani could not immediately say what impact the shutdown would have on production, which totalled 119,000 tonnes of finished copper in 2018.
June 17, 2019 Ivanhoe to produce first copper concentrate from giant DRC mine in a year The Canadian miner is moving full-speed with construction of its Kakula — the stage one, six-million-tonne-per-annum (6 Mtpa) operation — that is part of the vast Kamoa-Kakula copper mining complex.
June 16, 2019 One trapped miner in Chile rescued, one dead, one remains missing Chilean authorities found alive one of three Bolivian miners trapped beneath the rubble at a small copper mine early on Saturday, while another was found dead.
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option Bruno Lemelin recalls his first Iamgold boss urging him to join Essakane in Burkina Faso as regional politics began to unravel. December 26, 2025 | 05:00 am
