Foreign and local companies invested about $383 million exploring in Mexico in 2018, down 37.4% from the $612 million injected into the economy in 2017.
The exploration and development company became the second Australian miner since April to back off from plans to buy the Glencore's CSA, in New South Wales.
The group action suit describes in detail a series of failures and errors of judgment over several years leading to the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in 2015, owned by the Samarco joint venture between BHP and Vale.
The Australian miner believes that Cascabel and now Porvenir are the first in a long, large and rich string of copper-gold projects it will develop in Ecuador.
Coalition has gone to court challenging a Trump administration’s decision that opened the door to Twin Metals’ copper, nickel and platinum project in a wilderness area of Minnesota.