July 9, 2019

Brazil court convicts Vale for damages caused by deadly dam rupture

Judge Elton Pupo Nogueira ruled that Vale is responsible for fixing all the damages, although he did not set a monetary value for compensation.

July 9, 2019

Peru gives Southern Copper construction permit on delayed $1.4bn project

Southern Copper has spent years waiting for the final green light that consecutive governments had declined to give.

July 9, 2019

Kaizen completes permitting process at Peruvian gold-copper project

Now the Vancouver-based company can set a target date for its 2019 resource expansion and target testing drill program.

July 9, 2019

South32 eyes Chile’s Caserones copper mine

The Australian miner is said to be mulling the acquisition of the operation, in a deal estimated at over $1 billion.

July 8, 2019

Brazil to auction mining rights for about 1,000 areas this year

Brazil has a backlog of more than 20,000 areas where mining rights expired or were otherwise lost by their previous holders, equivalent to roughly 10% of the areas with pending…

July 7, 2019

Blue Sky Uranium advances Amarillo in Argentina

Earlier this year, the company completed a preliminary economic assessment of its main Ivana deposit at Amarillo Grande.

July 7, 2019

Yamana’s Peter Marrone on how gold companies can find value

Yamana Gold's executive chairman Peter Marrone reflected on the many changes initiated at Yamana over the past few years.

July 5, 2019

Lundin closes $1bn acquisition of Chapada copper-gold mine

The Chapada mine, in the northwest state of Goiás, began production in 2007 and is expected to churn out about 54,500 tonnes of copper and 100,000 ounces of gold this…

July 5, 2019

Iron ore price craters 6%

China's powerful iron and steel industry body wants Beijing to "maintain normal market order".

July 5, 2019

Chile mining sector continues to lag on growth

Mining activity in May dropped 2.3% compared with the same month in 2018 as the sector continued to confront sharply falling ore grades at its largest deposits.