Copper price rises as looming strikes in Chile add to supply worries

Up six percent from a year ago.

The project could become the first mine Codelco operates abroad.

Newcrest Mining says experts on site have observed no environmental damage.

Unionized workers company’s latest offer for a collective labour agreement.

Company expects to lose about 200,000 tonnes in steelmaking coal output.

But the customs data look worse than it is.

The go-ahead from the Antofagasta region's environmental regulator will allow the company to expand its Radomiro Tomic mine.

Exploration spending increased 20% across the Canadian province in 2017, reaching $246 million, compared with $205 million in 2016.

A new mining code in the cobalt-rich Congo will lead to higher costs for consumers of the battery metal at a time automakers are expanding production of electric vehicles, experts say.