April 8, 2016 Antofagasta copper veteran Hernandez retires, Arriagada named new CEO The appointment is effective immediately and Hernandez, who had been CEO since 2014, will remain as an adviser to the board.
April 8, 2016 Lundin biding time to complete mining portfolio with more deals The company recently offered as much as $262.5 million to buy a stake in Freeport-McMoRan Inc.’s Timok copper and gold project in Serbia.
April 7, 2016 Canada unveils final anti-corruption law for the extractive sector Estimated to cover the nearly 2,000 natural resource companies whose businesses are registered in Canada or trade on Toronto’s stock exchange.
April 7, 2016 Alberta shuts oil sands environmental monitoring agency After report concluded the program was a “failed experiment.”
April 7, 2016 Workers at Freeport’s copper mine in Peru to down tools About $22 billion worth of projects have been cancelled or delayed in Peru in recent years due mainly to anti-mining protests.
April 7, 2016 Illegal mining in Congo wiping out gorilla populations Fewer than 3,800 Grauer gorillas still live in the wild, down from 17,000 in 1998 due mainly to illegal mining for coltan and other minerals, a report shows.
April 6, 2016 Ex-coal CEO sentenced to a year in prison over mine-safety conspiracy The sentencing comes six years and one day after a fatal explosion killed 29 at Massey’s Upper Big Branch mine.
April 6, 2016 Vale cuts spending, management salaries The iron ore and nickel giant has reduced its forecast for capital spending in 2016 to $5.5bn from $6.2bn previously.
April 6, 2016 Canadians to develop space mining tool Deltion Innovations aims to design a drill that would prospect for water, ice and resources on the moon and beyond.
April 6, 2016 Osama Bin Laden was more than keen on gold Documents recently declassified by the CIA revealed he was an avid gold investor and even predicted the price spike of 2010-2011.
Construction on track for Q1 completion at Sibanye’s Keliber lithium project in Finland Keliber is the EU's most advanced integrated lithium project, with planned LiOH production of around 15,000 tonnes per annum. January 19, 2026 | 01:57 pm
