Chilean state miner Codelco produced slightly less copper in 2018 than the year before, the company reported on Friday, as it continued to contend with declining ore grades and rising costs at its aging mines.
News ID: 4172 Publish Date : 2019/03/30
Chile’s state miner Codelco, the world’s No.1 copper producer, plans to boost production at its El Teniente mine to more than 500,000 tonnes per year by 2025, a first in the operation’s history.
News ID: 4168 Publish Date : 2019/03/30
World’s largest miner BHP (ASX, NYSE:BHP) took a key step this week towards increasing its presence in Ecuador, the new darling of copper prospectors, by signing an earn-in and joint venture deal with Canada’s Luminex Resources (TSX-V:LR).
News ID: 4103 Publish Date : 2019/03/21
Me-Metals – Saad Abdi – Planning and Observation Manager of National Iranian Copper Industries Co. (NICICO) said: With maximum production, execution of developmental plans, localization and making use of the experiences of the predecessors at the four main axes of the copper company, we have been able to implement the production program of 1397 - the solar year - (equal to half of 2018 and half of 2019).
News ID: 3997 Publish Date : 2019/03/13
Australia’s largest gold producer, Newcrest Mining, (ASX: NCM) is acquiring a 70% joint-venture interest in Imperial Metals’ (TSX: III) Red Chris copper and gold mine, located in British Columbia, Canada, as part of an ongoing push by the world’s top bullion miners to get even bigger.
News ID: 3969 Publish Date : 2019/03/11
Peru's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism reported this week that exports dropped by 7.4% in January 2019 when compared to the same month of the previous year.
News ID: 3954 Publish Date : 2019/03/11
China’s Tianqi Lithium, the world’s No.3 producer of the metal used in electric vehicle batteries, will appoint three members to the board of Chile’s Chemical and Mining Society (SQM), as it recently acquired almost a quarter of the company.
News ID: 3928 Publish Date : 2019/03/09
The price of copper slid back again on Friday after trade data showed a plunge in Chinese imports of refined metal, even as concentrate shipments set fresh highs.
News ID: 3901 Publish Date : 2019/03/08
Murchison Minerals (TSXV: MUR) announced this week that it is now the sole owner of the HPM nickel-copper-cobalt project in Québec, following its acquisition of Pure Nickel's 50% interest in the project.
News ID: 3882 Publish Date : 2019/03/07
For the second year in a row, mineral and coal exploration expenditure in British Columbia increased in 2018.
News ID: 3822 Publish Date : 2019/03/03
The Peruvian government will likely grant Southern Copper Corp a construction license for its $1.4 billion Tia Maria project before its environmental permit expires in August, the energy and mines minister told Reuters on Thursday.
News ID: 3812 Publish Date : 2019/03/02
Queensland Rail had stowed a train carrying copper, lead and zinc concentrate from Glencore's operations in the Australian state on 31 January as a precautionary measure.
News ID: 3778 Publish Date : 2019/02/28
An indigenous community in Peru has blocked Chinese miner MMG Ltd from using a road to transport copper from its massive Las Bambas mine to a port for shipment for the past 10 days, a lawyer representing the community said Friday.
News ID: 3733 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
The price of copper surged nearly 3% on Friday after stocks held in global warehouses operated by the LME fell to the lowest since 2005.
News ID: 3730 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
Anglo American reported on Thursday better than expected core earnings, driven by higher copper and coal prices, but said no financial performance was "worth a life" and its biggest challenge was eliminating danger at its mines.
News ID: 3696 Publish Date : 2019/02/22
The US Army Corps of Engineers has released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), as required under the National Environmental Policy Act, for Northern Dynasty’s (TSX: NDM; NYSE : NAK) Alaska Pebble project, one of the richest copper-gold deposits ever discovered.
News ID: 3694 Publish Date : 2019/02/21
Canada’s Lundin Gold (TSX:LUG), the company that plans to kick off production at its Fruta del Norte gold project in Ecuador later this year, will boost exploration in the country thanks to a C$40.5 million (about $30.8m) financing secured this week.
News ID: 3693 Publish Date : 2019/02/21
Following its 2017 notice of force majeure that was ratified in January 2018, Vancouver- based LiCo Energy Metals (TSXV: LIC) announced this week that it has decided to completely drop the Purickuta project in northern Chile.
News ID: 3677 Publish Date : 2019/02/20
This week, Panoramic Resources (ASX:PAN) sent out the first shipment of bulk nickel/copper/cobalt concentrate from its Savannah mine in Western Australia to Lianyungang, China.
News ID: 3664 Publish Date : 2019/02/18
Iran has produced more than 200,000 tons of copper cathode in the first 10 months of the current local calendar year (started on March 21, 2018), indicating a 61% growth compared with corresponding period in last year.
News ID: 3644 Publish Date : 2019/02/16