January 6, 2021

Copper price hits new high as covid cases sweep South America

A second wave of coronavirus infections intensifies in South America, the world's top copper-producing region.

January 6, 2021

Protest blocks $530m worth of copper from Las Bambas

A three-week-long roadblock protest by locals has prevented mine from exporting 189,000 tonnes of copper concentrate.

January 6, 2021

Rhyolite encouraged by exploration results at Suriname gold project

The Brothers project is located 45 kilometers south of Newmont’s Merian mine.

January 6, 2021

Bear Creek raising C$30M in bought deal

The net proceeds of the offering are expected to be used for ongoing development work at the company’s flagship Corani silver-lead-zinc project in southern Peru.

January 5, 2021

Codelco okays $1.4bn plan to expand Salvador mine

It will convert Salvador, in operation since 1959, from an underground copper mine to an open-pit.

January 5, 2021

Intercontinental ships first zinc-silver concentrate from Bolivia

The initial shipment added up to 420 tonnes of zinc-silver concentrate.

January 4, 2021

SilverCrest secures $120m facility for Las Chispas

The financing is intended to fund the construction of the proposed 1,250 tonne per day underground project.

January 4, 2021

Brazil Minerals to expand lithium project

The hard-rock lithium asset is located in the northeast part of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

December 31, 2020

MINING.COM’s most popular stories of 2020

Even setting aside the disruptions and uncertainty created by the pandemic, 2020 was a tumultuous year on mining and metals markets.

December 31, 2020

Billionaire Friedland’s SPAC readies funds for clean-power push

Ivanhoe Capital Acquisition Corp. is raising $200 million to invest in industries key to the global energy transition.