World’s biggest precious metal industry readies for coronavirus
Platinum and gold mines in South Africa are gearing up to try and minimize a local outbreak of the coronavirus.
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Antofagasta to review expenditure as 2019 profit rises
Profit climbed 9.5% on higher sales and lower costs.
Anglo American slows Peru copper project due to quarantine
Company to slow down Quellaveco project following a 15-day national quarantine.
Copper price sinks as China faces first GDP drop since 1976
Copper drops to lowest since 2016 after post-outbreak economic data show China industrial production, fixed asset investment shrink by most on record.
Will aluminum heed the lesson from last demand shock?
The global aluminum industry has a terrible record of responding to demand shocks.
LME to suspend ring trading next week
LME to suspend open-outcry trading after Britain imposed restrictions to fight coronavirus.
Chile lithium miners say coronavirus impact on output minimal so far
Miners ramped up sanitary precautions at Atacama salt flat mining operations to protect workers.
Vale cuts activity at Voisey Bay over coronavirus risks
The plant at Voisey's Bay copper mine will be placed in "care and maintenance" for four weeks.
Newmont scales down Peruvian gold mine due to coronavirus
Yanacocha represents about 3% of Newmont's 2020 attributable gold production outlook.
