Copper headed for first annual fall in three years

Romulo Mucho was removed from his post on Tuesday amid protests from small-scale miners in the Andean nation.

The ICSID tribunal ruled in 2020 that Panama was responsible for the "unlawful expropriation" of Dominon's mining investments.

Mining exports were worth $3.3 billion for Ecuador in 2023.

Greenland contains large deposits of most of the minerals considered critical by the US Geological Survey.