January 27, 2019 Vale dam collapse: Panic after fresh alert at another mine in Brumadinho An alarm warning of an imminent mining dam rupture was issued on Sunday morning near Brumadinho, the same Brazilian community where the collapse of Vale's dam on Friday killed at…
January 27, 2019 Chilean miner Antofagasta studying $3 bln expansion at Centinela mine -paper Antofagasta's copper production rose 3 percent to 725,300 tonnes last year, allowing the company to weigh potential expansion projects.
January 27, 2019 Almaden Minerals rejects activists’ letter to Mexican president The Canadian miner deemed as false the allegations in a letter given by a group of activists to the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
January 26, 2019 Codelco and Ennomotive challenged engineers to find creative uses for copper-graphene nanocomposite Sixty-five engineers from 15 countries came up with ideas.
January 25, 2019 Vale’s tailings dam bursts after end-year rebound in iron ore prices As early as next week, iron ore prices may start to reflect the impacts of Vale's dam bursting at Corrego de Feijao in Brumadinho.
January 25, 2019 Workers at Prodeco’s Colombia coal port vote down proposed strike Only eight out of 115 workers voted in favor of a strike, much less than the overall worker majority required for a legal strike.
January 25, 2019 Mirasol Resources expands in southern Argentina The Vancouver-based miner is consolidating the Sascha - Marcelina project to make it 30,600 hectares big.
January 25, 2019 Colombia extends Drummond contract on coal mine for 20 years The contract will generate at least $586 million in royalties, income and social project investment during its lifetime.
January 25, 2019 Hundreds still missing following Vale’s dam break in Brazil Nine bodies had been recovered by Saturday morning.
January 24, 2019 Chile strikes deal with lithium miner Albemarle in contract dispute The dispute centered around a contract term that requires Albemarle to provide as much as 25 percent of its annual production of lithium at a discount.
CHART: Friday massacre for mining stocks but copper price pulls out of nosedive Historic down day for gold and silver prices caused double digit losses for precious metals stocks but copper miners came off relatively lightly. January 30, 2026 | 06:21 pm
