May 25, 2017 Super power: Are rechargeable batteries transforming the mining sector? There are signs of resurgence in the mining industry, driven in large part by the boom in storage technology.
May 24, 2017 CEO sees little chance of Samarco restart in 2017 30m tonnes per year operation jointly owned by BHP and Vale shuttered since November 2015 following dam burst.
May 24, 2017 Workers block access to First Majestic’s La Encantada mine in Mexico Company said blockade was in response to a recently announced bonus offer in lieu of profit sharing.
May 23, 2017 Low copper prices force Codelco to revise underground expansion of Chuquicamata Modifications seek to simplify aspects of the project originally approved in 2010 in order to optimize mineral handling.
May 22, 2017 Report blasts Antofagasta’s Minera Los Pelambres Two days before Antofgasta's annual general meeting in London, an 18-pages long report by the London Mining Network slams Los Pelambres' environmental record.
May 22, 2017 Rio Tinto launches new debt reduction programme The company said that today’s announcement is part of its ongoing capital management plan.
May 19, 2017 BSGR may have to pay $1.2bn for no show at Simandou-related hearing The company, which could lose the arbitration as a result, will have to pay the amount to former partner Vale.
May 18, 2017 Venezuelan NGO asks government to kill Mining Arch decree An NGO based in the southern Bolívar state is calling the Venezuelan government to kill the 2016 decree that creates the Mining Arch of the Orinoco River National Development Strategic…
May 18, 2017 Australia’s miners dragging their feet and being swamped by Canada in Mexico’s resources upside Canadian miners are swarming over Mexico and its high level of mineral prospectivity at the expense of Australia’s explorers and miners who have only made a tentative foray into the…
May 18, 2017 Canada’s Trevali picks up Glencore zinc mines in Africa The deal, worth about $400 million, will make Trevali the first pure zinc producer with operations in North and South America as well as Africa.
Chile’s Mantoverde copper output hit as labor talks stall, union says The labor authority had notified that the company will not have emergency personnel from the union to keep facilities operational. January 12, 2026 | 11:18 am
