African Minerals halts trading, shuts down Sierra Leone assets Iron ore project will remain suspended until the company either releases $102 million in restricted cash or can secure other short term funding. Cecilia Jamasmie | December 1, 2014 | 11:26 am
Anglo American’s Los Bronces mine in Chile hit by strike This is the first time mining engineers, geologists and other highly educated employees go on a strike at a privately owned mine in Chile. Cecilia Jamasmie | November 28, 2014 | 5:34 pm
Copper hits 4-year low in New York End of strike at Peru’s biggest copper mine and weaker oil prices drove Dr. Copper goes to the ICU. Cecilia Jamasmie | November 28, 2014 | 4:36 pm
Rio Tinto cuts spending, defers capex, keeps dividend The mining giant said it was committed to giving significantly more money back to shareholders in 2015 despite a severe drop in iron ore prices. Cecilia Jamasmie | November 28, 2014 | 3:30 pm
Deep-sea miner Nautilus to get $113m of escrowed funds The sum will be given on the completion of the sale of 15% of its Solwara 1 project to an entity nominated by Papua New Guinea. Cecilia Jamasmie | November 28, 2014 | 2:23 pm
Chile’s mining sector to double energy demand by 2025 These are not very good news for the energy-starved copper producing nation. Cecilia Jamasmie | November 27, 2014 | 6:45 pm
Mariana Resources down after dumping copper-gold project in Peru Company say it would focus on core projects. Cecilia Jamasmie | November 27, 2014 | 4:08 pm
Rio Tinto sets $350m aside to expand Canada’s Diavik diamond mine The investment will allow for a fourth pipe to be developed at the site, with production expected to start by 2018. Cecilia Jamasmie | November 27, 2014 | 2:50 pm
African Barrick is history, changes name to Acacia Mining The miner plans underground operations at North Mara and inked a deal that could see it acquire up to 70%of a project in Burkina Faso. Cecilia Jamasmie | November 27, 2014 | 11:27 am
Heads roll as BC Iron forced to cut costs amid weakest price in years Founding managing director Mike Young among the ones leaving the company. Cecilia Jamasmie | November 26, 2014 | 7:26 pm