February 22, 2012 Energy inefficiencies jeopardizing Peru’s mining future Lack of investment and long-term planning in the Peruvian electrical system are threatening to wreck billionaire mining projects, considered key to the economic growth of the country, reports today one…
February 21, 2012 European Goldfields and Eldorado tie-up: At last investors can cheer news about Greece The $2.5 billion deal saw European Goldfields add 6.4% in afternoon trade on Tuesday while Eldorado gained 6% to bring their combined market value to $10 billion.
February 20, 2012 Legislators present bill to ban gold mining in the Amazon Peruvian legislators have presented a bill to congress to restrict gold mining in the Amazon basin.
February 20, 2012 Focus finds bonanza silver grades at its Peru Minas Chanca Project Focus Ventures Ltd. (CVE:FCV) announced this morning high- to bonanza-grade silver intercepts from its Minas Chanca project in Peru.
February 20, 2012 Chile the largest copper producer and the country with the biggest reserves — USGS Chile is not only the largest copper producer in the world, but also the country with the largest worldwide reserves of the red metal, reveals the latest commodity report by…
February 20, 2012 Chile Collahuasi mine resumes operations after snowstorm halt Collahuasi, the third largest copper mine in the world, resumed operations this morning after a snowstorm halted production on Sunday, publishes online news outlet Terra.cl
February 20, 2012 Avanco Resources to double copper gold resource through acquisition from Xstrata Brazilian copper developer Avanco Resources (ASX:AVB) said today that it would double the company’s copper gold resources through the acquisition of the Pedra Branca Copper-Gold Project in Brazil's Carajas Mineral…
February 19, 2012 Two of the 33 Chilean miners trapped in 2010 back to work Two of the 33 Chilean miners trapped during 69 days underground in 2010 are back in the mining world, after over a year of vain efforts to find a job,…
February 18, 2012 Thousands of Peruvians walk 870k to protest mine Peruvians in the northern region of Cajamarca are not giving up easily in their fight over Newmont Mining's proposed Conga copper-gold mine.
February 17, 2012 Ecuador, Kinross hit impasse over Fruta del Norte Talks between the Ecuadorian government and Kinross Gold have stalled over the country's largest mine, Fruta del Norte.
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option Bruno Lemelin recalls his first Iamgold boss urging him to join Essakane in Burkina Faso as regional politics began to unravel. December 26, 2025 | 05:00 am
