McEwen Copper seeks $2.5bn for Los Azules project in Argentina
Los Azules is due to receive a key environmental permit in four to six weeks, the company said.
The firm’s flagship Inmaculada gold and silver project is a 20,000-hectare project located in Hochschild’s southern Peru cluster.
Gold and silver producer Hochschild Mining (LON:HOC), severely hurting from the global commodities downturn, said Wednesday its chairman Eduardo Hochschild would become non-executive chairman beginning Jan. 1.
The company also said it was further slashing executive pay as part of ongoing cost cuts to steady itself against falling precious metals prices. Non-executive directors, in turn, will see a 30% pay cut next year.
Roberto Dañino, deputy chairman, has also waived a fee payable to him as special adviser to the firm, Hochschild said.
The company is poised to drop out of the FTSE 250 — index containing the 101st to the 350th largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, on December 22, as its shares have fallen 38% this year on the back of weak results caused by slumping gold and silver prices.
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