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Maverix to buy most of the silver from Ascendant’s Honduran mine

The Vancouver-based company will make an advance payment of $7.5…

Chile’s Codelco to boost production at El Teniente copper mine

Output increase would position the mine, which produced 465,000 tonnes…

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Smelter shutdown to cut Vale nickel production 5%

The Brazilian miner said on Friday it will lose 5% of its total nickel production for 2011 as a result of a 16-week shut down of a smelter furnace in Canada Brazilian miner Vale said on Friday it will lose around 5 percent of its total 2011 nickel

AMEC awarded major Chilean iron ore EPCM contract

Compañía Minera del Pacífico has awarded the EPCM contract or its Cerro Negro Norte iron ore mining projects to international engineering firm AMEC International engineering and project management company, AMEC, has been awarded an engineering,

Behre Dolbear highlights the best countries for mining investment

“Worldwide, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and Chile will likely remain the best jurisdictions in which to invest in and develop mining projects. Each of these nations will likely continue to see economic growth and mining investment.” This comment comes from a report, 2011 Ranking of Countries for Mining Investment Where ‘Not to Invest’. Most of us will agree with the company’s statement “the mining industry is vital to the creation of wealth and prosperity in any country. Countries that stifle it with detrimental political, economic, financial, and regulatory policies should be challenged to make changes that are more accommodative to its success.”