December 4, 2018 Vale to go it alone on $500m investment in New Caledonia nickel mine New Caledonia could be a very important part of our strategy to supply nickel, especially given the EV revolution.
December 4, 2018 Miramont gets green light to start drilling at Peruvian project The Vancouver-based miner anticipates drilling to begin early in the New Year.
December 4, 2018 Teck chooses Sumitomo to develop Chilean copper project in $1.2B deal Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo Corp. will pay $800 million earn-in contribution and $400 million matching contribution for a third of Teck's 90% interest in Quebrada Blanca mine.
December 3, 2018 Big lithium riches lure first-time miner to Bolivia’s salt flat ACI Systems Alemania employs just 20 people and was created solely to focus on building a lithium mine in Bolivia.
December 2, 2018 What to watch in commodities: Trump-Xi, OPEC, iron, Tesla, crops It’ll be an important week for iron ore, which has been badly beaten up in November.
December 2, 2018 Codelco strikes contract deal with workers at Ministro Hales mine The 36-month contract was approved by 53% of the union.
December 2, 2018 New Mexican president asked to solve issue with former mine workers in two weeks Initially, workers linked to the Los Mineros Union planned to launch a protest action on December 1st, López Obrador's inauguration day.
December 1, 2018 Peru’s gold, silver, copper output falls On the positive side, the Andean country's iron ore production grew by 66.8% when compared to the previous year.
November 30, 2018 Indigenous rights ‘invisible’ as Ecuador pushes mining, oil projects: U.N. Days before Tauli-Corpuz arrived in Ecuador, indigenous groups and about 2,000 protesters marched in the capital Quito and handed the national assembly a proposed law that would ban large metal-mining…
Rio Tinto’s fourth-quarter iron ore, copper output beat estimates Despite the comeback performance, Rio Tinto is still in danger of losing the top producer spot to Brazil's Vale. January 20, 2026 | 02:08 pm
