Hochschild CEO to leave after 13 years with miner

Levental's mining career spanned over 30 years, he held numerous board and senior roles and was actively involved in many of our industry’s more notable deals and development projects. 

Unions had threatened to strike for the past week if the Codelco board did not invest to upgrade the Ventanas smelter.

Key moves in the mining sector.

Palifer is a Silicon Valley-based technology startup backed by accelerator Y-Combinator, which has been used to launch iconic brands like Airbnb, DoorDash, Coinbase, Instacart and Dropbox.

Teck’s vice-president of sustainable development gave examples of how the company is attempting to solve operational issues through innovation — including using ideas from Star Trek.

Pay increases were made to some 500 employees in around 20 countries.

From June 7 to 9, Ontario Mine Rescue hosted the provincial competition at Vale’s Creighton mine in Sudbury.

Codelco last week said it stopped its Ventanas smelter and refinery to carry out maintenance after authorities declared an environmental emergency.

As the mining industry gathers in Toronto this week for one of its biggest annual events, the focus will be on two groups of metals.