February 21, 2021 Argentina optimistic on projects led by Canadian miners Argentina’s National Mining Secretariat issued a dossier highlighting projects by Yamana, Alpha Lithium, Minsud and others.
February 19, 2021 Southern Ecuador’s Cuenca bans large-scale mining More than 80% of the electorate voted this week in favour of the ban, which should not affect existing projects.
February 18, 2021 Most miners lag behind in human rights issues — report Ten years after the adoption of United Nations principles, a study shows most miners have yet to step up efforts to improve their human rights record.
February 18, 2021 Hecla silver production improves by 7% in 2020 Hecla now has the third-highest silver and gold reserves in company's 130-year history.
February 18, 2021 Hochschild Mining’s earnings drop on covid-19-led mine closures Company posted a 21% drop in full-year core earnings as a run of pandemic-driven production roadblocks wiped out the boost from higher gold prices.
February 18, 2021 Max Resource’s Cesar project grows to district-scale size The copper-silver project in northeastern Colombia now covers over 2,500 square kilometres, with a cumulative 220-kilometre strike of prospective copper-silver mineralization.
February 18, 2021 Aftermath Silver kicks off work program at Chilean project The new work program is designed to test the material outside of the high-grade structures that formed the mineral resource estimate.
February 17, 2021 Commodities Super Cycle: Real thing, or marketing hype? It all comes down to economics 101, says CPM Group’s Jeff Christian.
February 17, 2021 Rio Tinto starts drilling at Janice Lake RTEC drilling at Forum Energy Metals' 100% owned copper-silver project in Saskatchewan.
February 17, 2021 Rio Tinto to tackle customers’ emissions, hands out biggest dividend ever The miner is giving $9bn in cash back to shareholders and has laid out plans to tackle its global customers' carbon footprint.
Disruption and dislocation: LME metals’ year in seven charts Supply disruption and tariff dislocation have defined the London Metal Exchange base metals complex this year. December 23, 2025 | 07:58 am
