Operations are expected to recommence early this week and the stoppage is not expected to materially affect operational nor financial results.

Commercial operation will begin in December, and the government hopes it will boost gold production by 25%.

Drilling returned 14 m averaging 14.94 g/t Au at the Candelones Extension deposit.

ICSG estimates a deficit of about 50,000 tonnes of copper this year and a surplus of about 70,000 tonnes in 2021.

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IGF says the pandemic will have longer- term consequences on employment in the large-scale mining sector as a result of impacts on local suppliers and community economic activities, mining capex forecasts and current investments.

Roughly 150 demonstrators staged a sit-in at the Brazilian miner's administrative building in Brumadinho.

The average price Freeport received for its gold surged nearly 28% to 1,902 per ounce in Q3, with copper and gold sales nearly 7% higher than the company's July estimates.