Vale sees no near-term spin-off of base metals unit

Canada’s largest diversified miner saw its quarterly profit drop 41.5 % from the year earlier, amid lower prices for copper, zinc and oil.

Improving battery technologies will mean that even long-haul trucks could be economically electrified during the second half of the next decade.

The autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville has rejected controversial changes to its mining law.

The country's environmental agency OEFA detected a "flow of a greenish solution" into the nearby Torata River in the waste deposit area of the copper mine, located in the Moquegua region.

According to the industry group, such reform would encourage additional investment in capital and technology.

The wet season in the austral summer has caused havoc in northern Chile.

Mopani is one the biggest mining companies in Zambia -- Africa's No. 2 copper producer.

SolGold is frustrated at the rejection of its planned bid for Canadian firm Cornerstone, which holds 15% of the Cascabel copper-gold project in Ecuador.

Codelco has halted operations at its Chuquicamata and Ministro Hales copper mines; Freeport-McMoRan suspended El Abra.