David Clarry, VP Corporate Social Responsibility for Hudbay Minerals takes over for Gordon Stothart, President and CEO of IAMGOLD.

The deal will ease concerns over a potential stoppage that would have further tightened global supplies of the metal.

Key moves in the mining sector.

Bingham Canyon in Utah has been mined since 1906 and has produced more copper than any mine in history – more than 19 million tonnes.

Lundin has marked a milestone with the distribution of 1,370 tablets to students in the parish and several other rural communities close to its Fruta del Norte mine.

Ben Wyatt is to be Rio Tinto's first Indigenous board member in a move to restore a reputation tarnished after last year's destruction of the Juukan Gorge rock shelters.

United Steelworkers are set to vote on ratifying a new four-year collective agreement with employer ArcelorMittal in the coming days.

Key moves in the mining sector.