June 13, 2019 Analysts say Vale execs optimistic about recovery of output at Brucutu mine Brazil's Vale, which needs court approval to resume production at its Brucutu mine after a deadly dam collapse, told analysts it expects to do so soon.
June 13, 2019 Unions to strike at Chile’s Chuquicamata after labor deal falls through Workers "decided unanimously to initiate a walk-off beginning the first shift on Friday, June 14.
June 13, 2019 SolGold strikes again in Ecuador’s Andean copper belt Discovery comes on the heels of a government's study showing the miner's Cascabel project will be one of the world’s ten largest copper, silver and gold mines.
June 12, 2019 Pot is taking the spotlight away from lithium and threatening the EV boom Lithium miners are seeing investor interest go up in smoke.
June 11, 2019 Albemarle details efforts to boost its Chilean lithium output by 30% The company described a process that evokes the industry standard of using a series of evaporation ponds.
June 11, 2019 Chile to push both private and public investment in lithium The country produced 96,053 tonnes of the white metal, which is used to make electric vehicle batteries, in 2018.
June 11, 2019 Successful gold mining starts with orebody quality says Barrick’s Mark Bristow If you start with a really underwhelming ore body, you’re never going to make any money
June 11, 2019 Saving the earth with electric cars means wrecking a fragile desert Extracting Atacama’s lithium means pumping large amounts of water and churning up salty mud known as brine—and that’s having an irreversible impact on the local environment.
June 10, 2019 Tianqi says happy ‘for now’ with stake in SQM Tianqi last December bought a 23.8 percent share in SQM from Canadian fertilizer company Nutrien for $4.1B, the largest deal in history for a lithium asset.
June 10, 2019 Bonus schemes play a role in tailings dams failures – research According to a paper in Resources Policy, such compensation packages actively encourage managers to cut costs and increase production regardless of the risks associated with those decisions.
TMC soars after filing for international permit under new Trump rules The stock jumped more than 30% by noon on Tuesday after The Metals Co. became the first to seek Washington's approval to mine the seabed. January 22, 2026 | 09:02 am
