March 11, 2015 The bottom is in. Venezuela restarts iron mine after 18 years OR NOT. As iron ore prices fall to 7-year lows struggling South American nation reopens 18 billion tonne Cerro Bolivar mine mothballed since 1997.
March 11, 2015 Dire Chinese steel outlook drops iron ore price to 7-year low Down 1.4% Wednesday to lowest since 2007 on Chinese forecast of peak steel production and contraction.
March 11, 2015 Everyone is guessing when it comes to oil prices Predicting and diagnosing the trajectory of oil prices has become something of a cottage industry in the past year.
March 11, 2015 INFOGRAPHIC: Everything you need to know about copper porphyries This infographic covers everything you should know about copper porphyries, a deposit type responsible for about 60% of copper, 95% of molybdenum, and 20% of gold produced today.
March 10, 2015 Antofagasta to appeal order to knock down Los Pelambres mine dam The ruling claims the dam has diverted the course of a local estuary, causing water shortages at a time of drought.
March 10, 2015 This is what the world’s largest underground mine looks like MINING.com visited Chile’s El Teniente mine, the world's largest underground copper operation and the sixth biggest copper mine by reserve size.
March 9, 2015 Goldcorp disappearances raise Mexican mining safety fears The probable kidnapping of 4 workers at Goldcorp's Los Filos mine is just the latest in a string of mine incidents in Guerrero, Mexico's most violent state.
March 9, 2015 Rio Tinto to axe hundreds of jobs as part of drastic restructuring The company recently announced its intention to merge the copper and coal divisions, reducing Rio's businesses to just four main groups.
March 9, 2015 Chile launches national program to boost mining industry productivity One of the goals is to support the creation of 250 local mining suppliers and have the sector exporting $10bn in knowledge-intensive solutions by 2035.
March 8, 2015 Clinton run for presidency swept up in Haitian gold permit affair The presidential ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton have become ensnared in an obscure gold-mining project in Haiti, as the Democratic favorite for the presidency begins her second run for the…
Copper price: Global exchange stocks top 1 million tonnes first time in 21 years Copper stocks on the world's biggest metal exchanges have exceeded 1 million tons for the first time since 2004. February 16, 2026 | 12:35 pm
