Copper production in Chile’s top mines rose in April despite the generalised shutdown in the country aimed at halting the spread of the new coronavirus.
News ID: 9684 Publish Date : 2020/06/10
Chinese state-owned nonferrous metals producer Zijin Mining said today that it has agreed to buy the Timok copper and gold mine in Serbia from US-based Freeport McMoran.
News ID: 7230 Publish Date : 2019/11/04
BHP said its Escondida copper mine, the world’s largest, was operating at a “reduced rate” after union workers walked off the job for part of the day on Tuesday in solidarity with the anti-government protest movement across Chile.
News ID: 7162 Publish Date : 2019/11/01
Hudbay Minerals on Tuesday vowed to appeal a court ruling that barred the Canadian miner from building a major copper mine in the United States after losing its bid to have a judge revisit the decision.
News ID: 7161 Publish Date : 2019/11/01
Chinese miner MMG Ltd is likely to have to halt production at its Las Bambas copper mine in Peru “within a week” amid protests that have blocked access to the site, a senior local executive told Reuters on Friday.
News ID: 6761 Publish Date : 2019/10/11
Ecuador’s only large-scale copper mine is curbing operations as a precautionary measure while protests against an end to government fuel subsidies continue across the country.
News ID: 6760 Publish Date : 2019/10/12
In 2017, the world’s largest copper producer — Chile’s Codelco — announced a plan to sell “green copper” at a premium price to customers using more sustainable practices like renewable energy and recycled water to cut its carbon footprint.
News ID: 6756 Publish Date : 2019/10/20
The Chinese operator of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s largest copper producer has told employees that it’s struggling to make money as the collapse of cobalt and copper prices hits miners in the country.
News ID: 6078 Publish Date : 2019/08/21
Chile’s Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, has already lost $17.5 million due to an ongoing strike at its Chuquicamata copper mine, its largest operation, as the labour action enters week two.
News ID: 4878 Publish Date : 2019/06/23
Solutions will be implemented to solve long-standing environmental issues associated with waste dumps left behind at the Anaconda copper mine site after the company of the same name shut down operations in 1978 and following Arimetco’s takeover and abandonment of the site in 1999.
News ID: 4759 Publish Date : 2019/06/04
Chilean copper miner Antofagasta Plc (LON:ANTO) will make a decision about going ahead with a $3B expansion of its Centinela mine, located in the country’s north, by the end of next year or in 2021.
News ID: 4349 Publish Date : 2019/04/12
ULAANBAATAR – A group of Mongolian legislators has recommended one of the agreements underpinning Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper mine should be scrapped and another changed, adding to the giant project’s political problems.
News ID: 4231 Publish Date : 2019/04/07
Management at Chilean miner Antofagasta Plc. (LON: ANTO) was able to secure this week full funding for the expansion project of its flagship Los Pelambres copper mine.
News ID: 4230 Publish Date : 2019/04/07
Peru’s Minister of Energy and Mines, Francisco Ísmodes, and the Vice-Minister of Territorial Governance, Raúl Molina, held a meeting this weekend with the Cusco Regional Governor, Jean Paul Benavente, where they addressed the situation regarding a blockade affecting Las Bambas copper mine.
News ID: 4149 Publish Date : 2019/03/25
Canadian miner Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) scored a big win this week after the U.S. Forest Service approved the company’s mine plan of operations (MPO) for its $1.9-billion Rosemont copper project, in Arizona.
News ID: 4122 Publish Date : 2019/03/22
Mining giant Rio Tinto’s (ASX, LON:RIO) relentless search for a major copper deposit may have finally paid off as it announced it had made a promising find at its Winu prospect in Western Australia.
News ID: 3776 Publish Date : 2019/02/27
OSLO, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Norway's government approved on Thursday the building of a copper mine near Europe's northernmost point despite years of opposition from indigenous Sami herders and fishermen.
News ID: 3623 Publish Date : 2019/02/14
The autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville has rejected controversial changes to its mining law, said to be aimed at letting a new company extract the island’s riches.
News ID: 3610 Publish Date : 2019/02/12
Billionaire Robert Friedland, founder and executive chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN), said Wednesday his copper project with Chinese partners, Zijin Mining Group and Crystal River Global, in the Democratic Republic of Congo “definitely” has the potential to become the world’s second-largest red metal mine.
News ID: 3580 Publish Date : 2019/02/06
Global miner Anglo American laid off 180 workers at its flagship Los Bronces mine in central Chile, part of a plan to boost productivity at the deposit that has raised the ire of some of its unionized workers.
News ID: 3512 Publish Date : 2019/01/31
