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
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
SANTIAGO – Chile's Antofagasta expects to reach an agreement with miner BHP to help ensure water supply at its Zalidvar copper mine in the country's northern desert, a company official told a Chilean newspaper on Friday.
News ID: 4126 Publish Date : 2019/03/22
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
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
Poland’s Supreme Audit Office (NIK) has lambasted state-controlled miner KGHM (WSE:KGH) for buying Sierra Gorda copper mine in northern Chile, saying that company has spent more than PLN 19.6 billion (about $5.2B) managing the operation and the ore processing plant in the last three years.
News ID: 4036 Publish Date : 2019/03/15
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
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
Anglo American's annual report released this week takes great pains to set out the London-listed mining giant's policies around director's responsibilities and incentives.
News ID: 3852 Publish Date : 2019/03/05
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
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
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
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
