January 13, 2016 INFOGRAPHIC: Animation – the most populous countries in the world, over 100 years Today's animation shows how the world's most populous countries will change over the coming years.
January 12, 2016 Chile mulls scrapping copper funding for military Codelco chairman, Oscar Landerretche, wants the government to scrap the country’s Copper Law, which forces the firm to give 10% of its annual export revenue to the Armed Forces.
January 12, 2016 Anglo American officially out of the Middle East The miner has finally completed the sale of assets from its Tarmac joint venture to a subsidiary of French engineering and construction group Bouygues.
January 12, 2016 Endeavour silver production above expectations, but gold falls It mined 7.2 million ounces of silver last year, or about the same than in 2014, but gold output fell 4% to 60,000 ounces.
January 11, 2016 Copper prices falling like it’s 2009 The fresh collapse dragged main producers down, with BHP Billiton, the world’s largest miner, hitting a decade-low.
January 8, 2016 Brazil tailings dam spill much smaller than original estimates BHP Billiton said Friday the dam burst at the Samarco iron ore mine in Brazil released 32m cubic metres of sludge, almost half earlier estimates.
January 8, 2016 Political risk seen on the rise in these key mining markets Major commodity-producing countries are set to remain under intense finance strain in 2016, which will increase the risk of social unrest, says Verisk Maplecroft.
January 7, 2016 Komatsu to purchase equity of service company for mining equipment in Mexico The firm is buying 60% of Road Machinery Co., S.A. de C.V, Mitsui's subsidiary in Mexico, which services Komatsu mining equipment.
January 7, 2016 Iron ore prices to fall back into the $30s — Citi Prices fell Thursday for a second consecutive session. According to Metal Bulletin, the spot price for benchmark 62% fines dropped by 0.46%, or 20 cents, to $42.91 a tonne.
January 6, 2016 Private capital won’t touch mining Only 0.6% of private capital raised in 2015 for natural resource investment is for mining projects–one wind farm fund attracted more than the entire sector.
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