Chile can raise the tax burden for copper producers by about 5 percentage points without significantly affecting the industry, according to Fitch Ratings.

Recent stimulus in China, consumer of half the world's copper, is the weakest in 20 years relative to the size of its economy -- report.

A year on from the nickel crisis the London Metal Exchange is still struggling to regain trading momentum.

Stockpiles of semi-processed copper at the Las Bambas mine site are “being progressively reduced,” the company said.

Francisco Zuniga will join Codelco in May after almost two years at Hartree Partners LP.

The head of Mexico's mining chamber issued a stark warning against the proposal, saying it could cost the country up to 420,000 direct jobs.