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
Chile’s top copper mines ramped up production in March even as the coronavirus outbreak took hold, according to data released on Thursday by state copper agency Cochilco, boosted by a sharp spike in output from state miner Codelco .
News ID: 9392 Publish Date : 2020/05/08
Chile’s Codelco , the world’s second-largest copper miner, has lost more ground among the metal’s top tier, after reporting that output for 2019 had fallen by 5.3% to 1.588 million tonnes.
News ID: 8886 Publish Date : 2020/03/28
Chile’s state copper miner Codelco said on Monday it had awarded a tender for a desalination plant for its Chuquicamata, Radomiro Tomic and Ministro Hales mines to a consortium led by Japan’s Marubeni Corp.
News ID: 7154 Publish Date : 2019/11/05
Ecuador is moving forward with plans to move from an explorers hotspot to mining exporter as the country’s only large-scale copper mine readies to ship its first large cargo in November.
News ID: 7149 Publish Date : 2019/10/29
Chile’s Codelco , the world’s largest copper producer, said on Monday that it is evaluating the closure of its Ventanas copper smelter in a polluted coastal region.
News ID: 6757 Publish Date : 2019/10/14
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
Chilean lawmakers have unanimously approved changes to a law that forces state-own Codelco , the world’s largest copper producer, to transfer 10% of its annual export sales to the country’s armed forces.
News ID: 5309 Publish Date : 2019/07/19
Unionized workers at Codelco ’s Chuquicamata operation rejected on Saturday the miner’s final contract negotiation offer and announced that on Tuesday and Wednesday they will be voting on a proposal to go on strike.
News ID: 4650 Publish Date : 2019/05/27
Codelco and other copper mining giants are set to plow billions of dollars into the revitalization of Chile's mines, but that may not be enough to keep the country from losing ground to competitors elsewhere in the world.
News ID: 4323 Publish Date : 2019/04/11
Chile’s Codelco , the world’s No. 1 copper producer, plans to kick off underground operations at its century-old Chquicamata mine by mid-year, chairman Juan Benavides said Wednesday
News ID: 3773 Publish Date : 2019/02/27
Following the development of a copper-graphene nanocomposite that adds 3% graphene to pure copper, Codelco Tech, a subsidiary of the world’s top copper producer, and engineering innovation firm Ennomotive chose three people to lead the creation of applications where the new material can be practically used.
News ID: 3451 Publish Date : 2019/01/28
A tight copper market may be set to get a lot tighter, if a report this week from the world’s biggest miner of the metal is any indication.
News ID: 2577 Publish Date : 2018/11/10
China's overseas expansion will spread over land that is home to more than half the world's population, potentially boosting copper use by 1.6 million tonnes, or roughly 7 percent of annual demand, major miner BHP said on Thursday.
News ID: 2364 Publish Date : 2018/10/04
Chile’s government is giving state-owned Codelco $1 billion in "extraordinary" capitalization to help it fund an ambitious plan aimed at upgrading its aging mines and dealing with dwindling ore grades.
News ID: 2147 Publish Date : 2018/06/30