Copper price leaps 26-month high on strong Chinese rebound

About 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater, triple previous estimates, have poured from an old Colorado gold mine into local streams since Wednesday last week.

Codelco, the world's No.1 copper producer, confirmed it will start legal actions against protesters this week.

The cuts represent 14% of what was once a 4,300 workforce.

According to local newspaper El Mercurio, the unnamed fund is buying Anglo's Mantoverde and Mantos Blancos copper mines.

While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was investigating pollutants at an old gold mine, it accidentally released an estimated one million gallons of mining waste into a creek.

"In today's environment cost cutting is simply not enough."

It's no secret that economic turmoil and extreme uncertainty in Greece pose major threats to the global economy.

Today's graphic shows total global public debt and the debt-to-GDP of all countries.

World's number one gold miner announces program to sell more mines, make deeper cost cuts after completing scenario-planning for a triple digit gold price.