Chilean President Sebastian Piñera has submitted a series of modifications to a bill introduced earlier this year which would set stiffer fines and jail time for serious violations of the country’s environmental rules.
News ID: 5154 Publish Date : 2019/07/14
While the prices for key battery minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, rare earth elements, graphite and copper have so far been subdued in 2019, the general excitement about the future wide adoption of electric vehicles continues to fuel activity amongst Canada’s battery mineral juniors. Here is a look at eight such companies:
News ID: 5153 Publish Date : 2019/07/14
Lundin Mining on Friday announced it has closed the acquisition of a 100% ownership stake in Mineração Maracá Indústria e Comércio S/A, which owns the Chapada copper-gold mine in Brazil from Yamana Gold.
News ID: 5042 Publish Date : 2019/07/07
The Tsilhqot’in First Nation have set up a “peaceful protest” on a road near Williams Lake, British Columbia and have turned back a work crew that had planned to move in heavy equipment to conduct drilling for the New Prosperity mine.
News ID: 5029 Publish Date : 2019/07/04
Moody’s forecast for the global base metals industry is stable, while it predicts performance to weaken over the next year and a half, Mining Weekly reported Monday.
News ID: 5003 Publish Date : 2019/07/02
The United States' unilateral sanctions against Iran have failed to block export of copper from the country, Bahram Shakouri, a member of Iran’s Copper Association, said, adding that Iran plans to increase its annual production of copper cathode to 450,000 tons.
News ID: 4950 Publish Date : 2019/06/30
A Zambian court on Friday lifted an order blocking a provisional liquidator at Vedanta’s Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) business from disposing of assets or making arrangements with creditor until a July 4 hearing.
News ID: 4941 Publish Date : 2019/06/30
Congo’s interior minister vowed to remove all illegal miners by Sunday from a copper and cobalt mine run by Glencore following a landslide this week that killed at least 43 of them.
News ID: 4938 Publish Date : 2019/06/30
Australia’s OceanaGold (ASX, TSX: OGC) said Friday that rumours about a halt of operations at its copper-gold mine in the Philippines were just speculation.
News ID: 4928 Publish Date : 2019/06/29
About 3,200 unionized workers at Codelco’s Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile returned to the operation on Friday, ending a two-week strike that lifted the metal’s price and triggered fresh supply fears.
News ID: 4927 Publish Date : 2019/06/29
Canadian bullion producer Yamana Gold (TSX:YRI) (NYSE:AUY) has lifted production guidance for its Brazil-based Jacobina mine, which the company believes is on the cusp of becoming a “world-class” operation.
News ID: 4925 Publish Date : 2019/06/28
The number of artisanal miners killed by a landslide at a copper and cobalt mine run by Glencore in Congo rose to 43 on Friday and officials said the army would deploy at the mine as the search for more victims continued.
News ID: 4924 Publish Date : 2019/06/28
The price of silver was trending lower on Wednesday, pushing the metal to below its 2019 opening levels of around $15.30 an ounce.
News ID: 4913 Publish Date : 2019/06/27
Rio Tinto’s (ASX, LON: RIO) subsidiary Kennecott Exploration has kicked off its drilling campaign at Broadway Gold Mining’s Madison copper-gold project, located in the Butte region of Montana, US.
News ID: 4908 Publish Date : 2019/06/25
Shares in Ecuador-focused SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) jumped on Friday, after it announced that the country’s Constitutional Court had rejected calls for a referendum on mining in Imbabura, the province in which the company’s flagship Cascabel copper-gold project is located.
News ID: 4880 Publish Date : 2019/06/23
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
The Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines approved a permit related to Camino Minerals' (TSXV: COR) environmental impact assessment for the Chapitos copper-gold project.
News ID: 4797 Publish Date : 2019/06/10
Scientists at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory created ultra-low density gold, silver and copper foams to give physicists better X-ray sources to employ in experiments at the National Ignition Facility.
News ID: 4788 Publish Date : 2019/06/10
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
Relations between the Zambian government and its copper mining sector have just taken a turn for the worse.
News ID: 4686 Publish Date : 2019/05/30
