December 31, 2020

McEwen completes feasibility for Fenix

Feasibility study has outlined a nine and a half year mine life for gold project in Sinaloa state, Mexico.

December 31, 2020

Chile says copper output down in November

Country's copper output fell 2.1% to 493,538 tonnes.

December 30, 2020

Two workers trapped in underground mine in Chile

Chile’s mining agency is leading the rescue efforts.

December 30, 2020

Samarco expects to reach pre-2015 production by 2029

Company estimates that only in 9 years it should reach a production scale between 22-24 million tonnes of iron ore per year, the same level as before the failure of…

December 30, 2020

Adventus shares up on drilling results at El Domo

Company and Salazar Resources announced new results from the copper-gold deposit in central Ecuador.

December 29, 2020

Global zinc production to rebound – report

High prices by historical standards have encouraged investment into a pipeline of new projects and restarts, which will continue to come online in 2021, Fitch forecasts.

December 29, 2020

Las Bambas blockades affect Peru copper shipments

The Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines expressed today its opposition to the blockades affecting the world’s ninth-largest copper mine.

December 29, 2020

Brazil, Australia iron ore shipments set 2020 record

The total volume dispatched to global destinations from Australia and Brazil was 29.7 million tonnes from December 21-27.

December 29, 2020

Newcrest goes ahead with Gorbea project in Chile

Company has exercised its option to enter the farm-in phase of its joint venture to develop the gold project by making a $500,000 payment to Mirasol.

December 28, 2020

Anti-mining activists attack Curimining worker in Ecuador

Curimining is developing the Curipamba copper-gold project, held by Canada’s Adventus Mining and Salazar Resources.