December 18, 2020

Iron ore price leaps to highest since 2011

Iron ore prices surged again Friday amid trading spikes Chinese steelmakers have called “unreasonable” and “abnormal.”

December 18, 2020

Endeavour Silver sells El Cubo mine to VanGold for $15m

Upon completion, Endeavour would become the largest shareholder in VanGold Mining.

December 18, 2020

MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

Rio Tinto taps finance head as new chief executive; SolGold CEO handed shareholder rebuke at annual meeting; Anglo American to divest from thermal coal operations by 2023

December 18, 2020

Antofagasta agrees copper charges for 2021, Codelco to follow

Companies will supply copper concentrate at treatment and refining charges of $59.50 per tonne and 5.95 cents per lb in 2021, signing up at the benchmark rate miners have now…

December 17, 2020

Great Panther restarts Topia, shares up

The plant is expected to begin processing ore on December 21.

December 17, 2020

A tale of two crises – metals in the year of covid-19

It’s been a tumultuous year for industrial metal markets, both the worst of times and the best of times.

December 16, 2020

Veteran copper executive sees mines avoiding major strike shocks

Just one mid-sized mine in Chile has halted operations because of strikes in the current wage cycle.

December 16, 2020

Condor starts initial site preparation at La India

Total area being cleared is 11.26 hectares and is estimated to be completed in 3 to 4 months.

December 16, 2020

SolGold faces rebellion from top shareholders

Mining heavyweights that backed the company and its huge Ecuadorian copper deposit are growing increasingly frustrated by the management’s decisions.

December 16, 2020

Aurania finds evidence of ancient mine corridor at Lost Cities – Cutucu

The company believes the Tiria-Shimpia target area may have been investigated for silver by the Colonial Spanish.