January 18, 2018 Copper miners challenged by water supply "Water demand will increase because it will be necessary to process more material to obtain the same amount of copper": Wood Mackenzie.
January 18, 2018 Chile’s regulator orders permanent closure of Barrick’s Pascua-Lama mine Agency also cut a 2013 fine for violations to $11.5 million (7 billion Chilean pesos) from the previous $16 million it had charged Barrick Gold, but later forced to review…
January 17, 2018 Torex restarts operations in Mexico despite blockade The miner and the current operating union re-established plant access through a road used during construction.
January 17, 2018 Output at Chile’s Escondida copper mine falls 7.8 pct in 2017 The decline to 903,000 tonnes came despite the start of operations at a new wing.
January 17, 2018 Tahoe welcomes new Canadian Ombudsperson for responsible enterprise Tahoe Resources Inc. welcomes the announcement today that Canada will establish the office of Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise.
January 17, 2018 Chile’s Corfo, SQM strike deal in lithium dispute The deal frees the miner to apply for increase in production quota amid demand boom and surging prices for lithium, which is used in EV batteries.
January 17, 2018 BHP second-quarter iron ore output up 3 pct, maintains forecast BHP's iron ore output climbed to 72 million tonnes for the three months ended Dec. 31 versus 70 million tonnes a year ago.
January 17, 2018 Condor Gold hopes to soon kick off construction at Nicaragua project To date, the company has invested $45 million in Nicaragua, completed over 70,000 meters of drilling on its flagship La India asset, and produced two PEAs and a PFS.
January 17, 2018 Costa Rican presidential candidate blasts ecologists, says he would bring mining back Conservative Diego Castro called environmentalist groups "eco-terrorists."
January 17, 2018 Vale confirms talks with BHP over Samarco exit During a meeting with investors and analysts in Sao Paulo, Vale’s investor relations director, André Figueiredo, said it seemed “natural” for his company to become the sole owner of the…
Indonesian forces rescue 18 Freeport workers from rebel siege in Papua The workers were fixing one of Freeport's electric towers in Tembagapura district in the mountainous Central Papua province. January 16, 2026 | 11:13 am
