April 10, 2019

Copper producer KGHM may freeze more mines in Canada, US – CEO

KGHM's foreign assets have struggled with rising costs, falling copper prices, technical problems and higher-than-expected capital spending.

April 10, 2019

Aurania finds high-grade copper and silver at the Lost Cities — Cutucu project in Ecuador

Reconnaissance exploration identified boulders in streams that contain up to 11.9% copper with 166g/t silver.

April 10, 2019

SolGold scores again at Cascabel project

The miner has found further mineralization at its Cascabel copper-gold project. Cascabel is believed to have the potential to become one of the largest copper-gold assets ever discovered.

April 9, 2019

Chile’s Collahuasi copper mine expects to match 2018 record output this year – CEO

Last year the mine produced 560,000 tonnes of copper, placing it among Chile´s top three producing mines.

April 9, 2019

Antofagasta to stay put on dividend policy but will return cash to shareholders

The company will retain its dividend policy of paying out at least 35% of underlying net earnings, but will pay out excess funds from the proceeds of sales to shareholders,

April 9, 2019

Squeeze from Brazilian iron ore disasters a boon for $1.5B magnetite pellet project

The Brazilian mine dam collapses and resultant forced shutdown of some of that country’s iron ore mines had caused a major seaborne supply squeeze across all of the commodity’s types.

April 8, 2019

Vale opens talks on compensation for dam disaster victims

Vale SA has opened negotiations with prosecutors and families of victims of the deadly January dam disaster.

April 8, 2019

Altiplano considers magnetic separation for Farellon ore

The company says that copper recoveries from low grade mineralized material went up following magnetite separation.

April 8, 2019

As Goldman backs off, Citi says chase iron ore rally to $100

Iron ore’s poised to hit $100 a ton, according to Citigroup, which highlighted “very, very low” seaborne cargoes just as data from China may show a pick-up in demand.

April 8, 2019

A million tonnes of copper is on the way: it may not be enough

Giant mines currently under construction will churn out an additional one million tonnes of copper through 2023, but that won’t be enough.