South32 buys stake in KGHM’s Chilean mine for $1.55bn

Copper up 3% as bulls pile into New York copper futures – $9.5 billion worth of metal traded by lunchtime.

The accident occurred about 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the copper and cobalt mine in the southeast of the country.

Revenue from energy and mining is expected to drop from $1.1 billion in 2018-19 to $861 million by 2020-21.

Wetlands have been dried out, the environment has been damaged, for the salt flat and for local communities, it is already too late.

Is copper finally about to break up out of its well-trodden seven-month range?

No degree of financial performance is worth a life.

Ernst & Young’s Canadian Mining Eye index, which tracks the performance of 100 Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange mid-tier and junior miners — dropped 2% in the last quarter of 2018.

The company recorded a $52.8 million fourth quarter loss in adjusted EBITDA.

The Lalor mine will then be joining the ranks of primary gold producers as one of the lowest sustaining costs in the industry.