March 11, 2024 Bolivia pitches Wall Street on bonds linked to lithium By tapping the market’s demand for clean-energy investments, the nation expects to drive borrowing costs to 10% or lower.
March 10, 2024 Global copper smelters less active in first two months of 2024 An average of 11.5% of copper smelter capacity monitored by Earth-i was inactive during January and February.
March 10, 2024 Ecuadorian government releases controversial prior consultation manual In the absence of an organic law that regulates the right to prior consultation, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Energy and Mines issued a manual.
March 9, 2024 Worker’s death spurs strike action at Codelco’s Radomiro Tomic mine Chilean media reported that mine workers blocked the entrance road to the Rodomiro Tomic mine and completely stopped production.
March 8, 2024 Vale CEO to keep job through 2024 as miner seeks successor Eduardo Bartolomeo will retain his job through December.
March 8, 2024 Worker dies in accident at Codelco’s Radomiro Tomic mine in northern Chile Activities were suspended at the area of the mine where the accident occurred, the company said.
March 8, 2024 Copper production by Chile’s Codelco slides, others climb in January Codelco, the world's top copper producer, saw its production sink nearly 16% year on year.
March 8, 2024 Peru copper output seen growing to 3mt in 2024, minister says The Chalcobamba project is expected to help Las Bambas eventually boost its output to approximately 400,000 tons of copper annually.
March 8, 2024 AI can potentially estimate global environmental destruction due to road development for mining Australia-based researchers trained three machine-learning models to automatically map road features in rural, generally remote and often forested areas.
March 8, 2024 BHP becomes first miner in Chile to exceed 40% female representation In 2016, BHP had only 17.5% female workers globally and today employs 1,509 women at Escondida mine alone.
Ferrexpo halts Ukraine operations, furloughs staff after power grid attacks The suspension will remain in place until power can be provided consistently at required levels, the company said. January 20, 2026 | 10:15 am
