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%.

June 19, 2024

Tianqi says Chile regulator decision has no major impact to 2024 financial result

Chile's financial regulator said the Codelco-SQM joint venture does not need to face a vote by SQM shareholders.

June 18, 2024

Codelco-SQM lithium deal can proceed without shareholder approval, regulator says

Tianqi, which holds about 22% of SQM shares, has repeatedly called for a vote by all shareholders.

June 18, 2024

BHP confident in reaching Mariana disaster settlement

Last week, Vale and BHP presented Brazilian authorities with a new offer to settle reparations.

June 18, 2024

Codelco meets with BMW and ABB in Europe visit

The company also plans to discuss copper and lithium with the Saudi Arabia mining minister in Chile next month.