The board will consider paying out a first dividend for the current business year at an upcoming meeting.

SQM saw its lithium sales volumes slip 15% over the first three months of 2023.

Even when iron-ore prices fall, Australian producers are still highly profitable given they have a lower cost, said

Proceeds will help advance La Plata copper-silver-gold-PGE project in Colorado.

The company can verify four more viable mining pits in its flagship Sierra Gorda copper and molybdenum mine.

Mediation will last until May 22, and a strike could start during the first shift on May 23.

The Allkem and Livent tie-up has raised expectations for more mergers and acquisitions.

Some Canadian institutional investors have lobbied the federal government to push the nation's biggest pension funds to lift their exposure to domestic companies.