Southern Copper Peru’s superintendent of environmental services said water use would not increase at the Cuajone copper mine as a result of its expansion project.
A decade of underinvestment in new supply and an enormous metal intensive energy transition have offered little incentive for investors to back the next generation of deposits.
Amid a wider slump, MINING.COM’s ranking was lit up by newcomer Amman Minerals, which now sits just outside the top 10 after minting at least six new billionaires since its July IPO.