me-metals: A recent mishap at a century-old copper smelter owned by Codelco is stoking debate over the pros and cons of shutting it down as a global smelting glut puts pressure on old, high-cost plants.
News ID: 12156 Publish Date : 2025/07/12
me-metals: Chile’s Congress has approved sweeping legislation to slash permitting times for mining and energy projects, aiming to boost investment in the world’s top copper producer and second-largest lithium supplier.
News ID: 12124 Publish Date : 2025/07/03
me-metals: Chile posted its best month of copper production this year as the world’s largest supplier of the metal delivers some relief to tight global markets.
News ID: 12118 Publish Date : 2025/07/01
me-metals: A Chilean startup backed by BHP Group has delivered its first copper cathodes from a demonstration plant at a mine site in northern Chile as the industry looks to squeeze out more metal from lower quality ore.
News ID: 12057 Publish Date : 2025/06/04
me-metals: Chilean copper producer Codelco and global miner Rio Tinto will jointly aim to create a copper “mining district” around their shared Nuevo Cobre project in the Atacama region of northern Chile, Codelco said on Monday.
News ID: 11985 Publish Date : 2025/05/13
me-metals: Top copper miner Codelco would be able to retain more profit to help dig itself out of debt and overhaul its aging deposits if Carolina Toha wins this year’s presidential election in Chile, according to her economic spokesperson.
News ID: 11984 Publish Date : 2025/05/13
me-metals: Chinese metals group Tsingshan said on Friday it remains interested in opportunities to invest in Chile’s downstream lithium sector, following reports that it had scrapped plans for a lithium cathode plant in the Andean country.
News ID: 11977 Publish Date : 2025/05/11
me-metals: Chile’s government said it is moving forward with a simplified process to award lithium contracts in three salt flats, the mining ministry said on Tuesday.
News ID: 11910 Publish Date : 2025/04/23
me-metals: Copper production from Chilean state-run miner Codelco dipped 6% year-over-year in February, data from copper commission Cochilco showed on Thursday, slipping to 98,100 metric tons.
News ID: 11867 Publish Date : 2025/04/11
me-metals: Chile’s place at the low-end of US tariffs announced last week could be favorable for the world’s leading copper-producing country if US President Donald Trump decides to slap tariffs on copper, Chile Mining Minister Aurora Williams said on Wednesday.
News ID: 11862 Publish Date : 2025/04/10
me-metals: Chile, the world’s largest producer of copper, is preparing to slash its official price estimate for 2025, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
News ID: 11854 Publish Date : 2025/04/07
me-metals: Rio2 (TSXV: RIO) announced on Friday it has kicked off construction at the Fenix gold mine in Chile, having successfully completed its permitting four months ago and secured funding for the project.
News ID: 11743 Publish Date : 2025/02/09
me-metals: Copper output from Chile, the metal’s top global producer, rose 4.9% to reach 5.5 million metric tons last year, according to data from copper commission Cochilco released on Friday.
News ID: 11741 Publish Date : 2025/02/08
me-metals: Chile has wrapped up the initial phase of its efforts to award special lithium operation contracts (Ceols) to private companies, drawing applications from seven firms and consortiums.
News ID: 11738 Publish Date : 2025/02/06
me-metals: Chile’s environmental authority SMA ordered on Thursday the “total and definitive” closure of Lundin Mining’s (TSX: LUN) Alcaparrosa mine, as a result of an almost three-year long probe into a massive sinkhole that emerged near the operation in 2022.
News ID: 11716 Publish Date : 2025/01/31
me-metals: Chile, the world’s No. 1 copper producer, will boost its output of the red metal to 5.54 million metric tons in 2034, representing a 5.6% increase from 2023, state-run copper commission Cochilco said on Wednesday.
News ID: 11662 Publish Date : 2025/01/16
me-metals: Chile’s copper export revenue jumped in December, despite lower prices for the metal, indicating that mines in the top-producing country extended a recovery from the lowest levels in two decades.
News ID: 11637 Publish Date : 2025/01/08
me-metals: Copper production in Chile, the world’s largest producer of the metal, reached 488,519 metric tons in November, a 9.8% year-on-year increase, state agency INE said on Tuesday.
News ID: 11618 Publish Date : 2025/01/02
me-metals: BHP (ASX: BHP) the world’s biggest miner, would need to offer a minimum 40% premium over Anglo American’s (LON: AAL) share price to make a renewed takeover bid now the rival’s value has been boosted by asset sales, two sources close to the matter told Reuters.
News ID: 11584 Publish Date : 2024/12/22
me-metals: El Salvador, which became the first country in the world to ban metals mining, could be losing out economy-changing wealth due to its massive unearthed gold deposits, says its President Nayib Bukele.
News ID: 11548 Publish Date : 2024/12/11
