Some day those might include a merger with Freeport-McMoRan.

The support from controlling shareholder Jiangxi Copper Corp comes after the state-run company said this week it would pay $1.1 billion for an 18% stake in Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals.

Panguna has an estimated 5.3 million tones of copper and 19.3 million ounces of gold, which would make the reserves worth about $60 billion at today’s prices.

Less than three years after China told the World Trade Organization it was going to ban imports of "solid waste," it is close to doing just that.

Social turmoil returns to the streets of Santiago after 30 years of calm.

The La Colorada Skarn deposit hosts an inferred resource of 72.5 million tonnes grading 44 g/t silver, 0.17% copper, 2.02% lead and 4.4% zinc.