June 3, 2019

Gold climbs as Trump’s Mexico threat shows ‘no country is safe’

Gold is finally seeing some bullish momentum as trade ructions escalate, fueling the biggest rally among the top miners in seven months.

June 3, 2019

Royal Road Minerals acquires Northern Colombia Holdings

The acquired company holds or has rights to a title package comprised of mining concession agreements covering approximately 35,747 hectares of land.

June 2, 2019

Worker killed at Codelco’s El Teniente mine

The causes that prompted a rock to fall down at the Pilar Norte mine are under investigation.

June 2, 2019

Peru’s Buenaventura threatened with general strike

Buenaventura said that it was forced to fire some workers because gold and silver reserves at Orcopampa have gone down and so has production.

June 2, 2019

Minas Gerais signs MoU with tech company to monitor tailings dams

Inmarsat has committed to providing the state government with a smart monitoring solution which is based on IoT and satellite technology.

May 31, 2019

Wall at Vale’s Gongo Soco pit begins gradual slide; dam holds

Vale said the Sul Superior dam, located just 1.5 km from the mine, remains intact and that it continues to be monitored 24/7 via radar, drones and a robotic station…

May 30, 2019

Copper market faces larger shortages, supply issues simmer

Benchmark copper prices on the London Metal Exchange, trading at around $5,850 a tonne, have tumbled nearly 9% this month.

May 30, 2019

SolGold’s shares crater on possible mining referendum in Ecuador

Investors worry a referendum on mining in Imbabura, the province in which its flagship Cascabel copper-gold project is located, could jeopardize the mine's future.

May 30, 2019

Chile’s Codelco Q1 copper production tumbles 18% y/y

Chilean copper giant Codelco produced 342,000 tonnes of copper from its mines in the first quarter of 2019.

May 29, 2019

Eike Batista plots his comeback and offers advice to Elon Musk

While differences between the men are glaring -- Musk wants his electric cars to break the world’s fossil fuel addiction -- the sudden downfall of Batista’s oil company offers a…