October 20, 2020 Vale ramps up faster than thought in new blow to iron ore price bulls Company produced more iron ore than expected last quarter amid a record haul at its newer mines in northern Brazil.
October 20, 2020 Workers at Codelco protest layoffs amid coronavirus pandemic A union group said the miner had used the pandemic as a pretext for privatizing some divisions and outsourcing functions to contractors.
October 20, 2020 Copper price surges to 28-month high Strikes in top producer Chile, hopes of US economic stimulus and robust Chinese data spark copper price rally – now up 63% since pandemic lows.
October 20, 2020 Minera Alamos to fast-track development at Cerro de Oro Located in Zacatecas, Cerro de Oro adds to Minera Alamos’ Santana and La Fortuna assets in Sonora and Durango.
October 20, 2020 BHP scraps $2.5bn Olympic Dam expansion plan It has decided against the brownfield expansion project after studies of the ore body revealed weaker than expected results.
October 19, 2020 Vale reports rise in quarterly iron ore output Company produced 88.7 million tonnes of iron ore in Q3, up 31.2% from the previous quarter and up 2.3% from the same period a year before.
October 19, 2020 Largo shares jump on record quarterly production Company reported a new quarterly production record of 3,092 tonnes of vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) in Q3 2020, a 5% increase over Q3 2019.
October 19, 2020 Ivanhoe shares up on Kakula underground development First production now expected in July 2021.
October 19, 2020 25 chinchillas stand between Gold Fields and $7bn worth of Chilean gold The miner is in the process of relocating 25 chinchillas, while construction of the mine camp is undergoing.
October 19, 2020 Vale aims for 400m tonnes of iron ore per year by 2023 The company is already producing 1 million tonnes of iron ore daily.
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