January 2, 2024

Pan Asia Metals to buy large Chilean lithium project

Tama Atacama is one of the largest lithium brine projects in South America, covering about 1,200km2 across three Chilean salt flats.

January 2, 2024

Gold Fields delays start of $1bn Chilean project until April

First gold production from the Salares Norte project in Chile is now expected in the second quarter of the year.

December 30, 2023

New Year’s resolutions for miners – 2024 

Timothy Foden, partner in international arbitration group at law firm Boies Schiller Flexner looks forward at legal challenges facing the mining industry.

December 29, 2023

Southern mining municipalities are the most violent in Venezuela – report

The three most violent municipalities in Venezuela are located in the southeastern Bolívar state mining area.

December 29, 2023

Chile’s copper output down 3.1% in November

Copper output in Chile decreased 3.1% year-on-year in November.

December 28, 2023

Mexico finds first remains of coal miners lost in 2022 accident

Mexican authorities have located the remains of two of the 10 coal miners trapped and killed at the El Pinabete mine in August 2022.

December 28, 2023

Brazil cracks down as wildcat miners in the Amazon shift their operations

Federal Police have joined the government's biodiversity conservation agency ICMBio on a series of recent operations to catch illegal gold miners.

December 28, 2023

Chile president praises Codelco, SQM lithium deal ensuring state control

SQM said it would partner with Codelco for the future development and production of lithium in the Atacama salt flat.

December 28, 2023

Executive Interview: Othon Maia, director of sustainability & corporate affairs, Anglogold Ashanti

Maia discusses the company's ESG, safety and technology strategies.

December 27, 2023

Codelco, SQM ink lithium partnership agreement

The two companies agreed to form a new company in which Codelco will have a majority stake.