June 21, 2024 Tianqi weighs legal actions after Chile regulator clears SQM-Codelco deal Chile's financial regulator allowed a planned lithium joint venture between SQM and Codelco to proceed without a vote by SQM shareholders.
June 21, 2024 SQM and Talga team up on Aero lithium project in Sweden The Chilean lithium miner can earn up to a 70% interest in Aero, which will grant it a foothold in the European market.
June 20, 2024 Vale unveils $3.3 billion plan to boost copper and nickel output The mining giant sees the potential to expand production capacity to about 500,000 tons of copper by 2028 mainly through improvements to its Salobo and Sossego mines in Brazil.
June 20, 2024 Vale expects deal to bring Onca Puma nickel mine back online soon A court decision halted the mine at the beginning of April.
June 20, 2024 South Star nears startup of the Americas’ first new graphite mine in over 25 years Santa Cruz will be the first new graphite production in the Americas since 1996.
June 20, 2024 Ecuador to approve Mirador copper mine expansion by August — official Mirador has reserves estimated in 3.2 million tonnes of copper and it is one of the country's only two mines in operations.
June 20, 2024 Vale sees higher 2026 copper, nickel output after investments Vale sees potential copper output in 2026 between 387,000 tonnes and 424,000 tonnes.
June 19, 2024 Omnigen Energy gets $46 million financing to develop 20 solar power plants in Minas Gerais Minas Gerais is the largest distributed generation market in Brazil with 2.5GWp already installed.
June 19, 2024 Along Peru’s mining corridor, Big Copper faces a snarl of trucks Trucks linked to artisan and illegal mining operations have been crowding vehicles from mines like Las Bambas, Constancia and Antapaccay.
June 19, 2024 B2Gold releases PEA for scaled down Gramalote project in Colombia The project is given an after-tax net present value of $778 million and an after-tax internal rate of return of 20.6%.
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
