February 4, 2018

Guyana Goldfields goes underground, stops worrying about Venezuela

The Canadian company is set to invest $120 million to conduct underground gold mining for the first time in Guyana’s history.

February 2, 2018

INGEMMET estimated the existence of 243,000 tons of silver and 6,915 tons of gold

Peru will strengthen position in top five gold and silver producing countries in the world if it makes most of the reserves of these two metals.

February 2, 2018

Rio Tinto back in race for stake in world’s largest lithium miner

Rio’s renewed interest in SQM is welcome by the Chilean government, which had expressed concerns about a potential and dangerous concentration in the market should major lithium producers, such as…

February 2, 2018

Southern Copper surprises with $287.5 million net loss in fourth quarter

Analysts had forecast a $419 million net profit for the company in the fourth quarter.

February 2, 2018

Two die in Yamana Gold mine accident in Argentina

The accident at Gualcamayo mine involved two employees of a local contractor traveling in a light truck on an access road at the Las Vacas exploration site.

February 1, 2018

No sign of early contract talks at BHP’s Escondida mine -Union

BHP's Escondida on Wednesday cast doubt on chances of starting talks on a new labor agreement with the company before formal negotiations scheduled for June.

February 1, 2018

World Copper Conference to be held in Santiago, Chile on April 9 to 11

CRU’s 17th World Copper Conference is a premier copper conference that attracts over 500 delegates.

February 1, 2018

Brazilian prosecutors say Anglo’s sale of Amapa iron ore shady

They also claim miner offloaded the asset to avoid paying for environmental damage caused by an accident at its floating dock, which killed six people and dragged vehicles, equipment and…

January 31, 2018

Brazil’s Vale expects to meet $10bn net debt goal by mid-2018

Speaking at an event in São Paulo, Schvartsman also said the recent rise in nickel prices should generate an additional $750 million in cash flow.

January 31, 2018

Animation: human population growth over all of history

Imagine that for every million people on Earth, there was a single dot on a map. What if we went back in time, watched dots accumulate over human history?