Freeport-McMoRan boosts dividend by 50%

A committee of six ministers pointed to numerous flaws with the project, including severe impact to a Humboldt penguin reserve.

Copper price rally cools after threat to global supply from top 5 Las Bambas mine is averted.

The country's Reserve Bank has ordered platinum and chrome miners to surrender 80 percent of their export earnings to the central bank as the country struggles to contain a crippling dollar note shortage.

Democratic Republic of Congo's government seeks to head off a collapse in national finances that is hitting the economy.

Kaz Minerals, a copper company focused on Kazakhstan, narrowed its full-year production guidance on Thursday to 235,000-260,000 tonnes after first-half output more than doubled, boosted by a market hitting multi-year highs.

Court of appeals says charges of “pollution, negligence and malpractice" still in place for 8 of 9 people.

Project will extend the life of its Spence copper mine in Chile by over 50 years, at a time when copper prices have reach their highest levels since late 2014.

The government owes mining companies about $700 million in VAT reimbursements from before last year's suspension.

Copper trades just short of $3 a pound as large scale futures speculators build massive bullish position and global supply worries resurface.