Venezuela has its eye on becoming a major minerals producer, though its capacity to do so is in question, according to Maplecroft's principal Latin America analyst James Lockhart-Smith.
Anti-mining protesters in Peru's Cajamarca region are scheduled to start an indefinite protest beggining May 31, local press reported. The main target is US-based Newmont Mining's $4.8 billion Conga mine project.
The Argentine supreme court has ordered the national and the San Juan provincial governments to submit the environmental reports that were used to approve Canadian miner Barrick Gold's (NYSE: ABX) bi-national Pascua Lama gold-silver project, a source from the court told BNamericas.
The tax burden for companies taking part in bidding processes for special lithium contracts in Chile will represent 50% of their profits, deputy mining minister Pablo Wagner told BNamericas.
Chile's supreme court has confirmed a previous appeals court ruling that ordered state copper producer Codelco to pay the costs of the legal process i...
The suspension of the launch of Toronto-based Latin American Minerals' (TSX-V: LAT) pilot plant at its Paso Yobai gold project in Paraguay is very unfortunate, local lawyer Vanesa Luraschi told BNamericas.
Chilean mining company Minera Copiapó's environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a US$13mn project to supply water to its mining projects in northern region I has been approved, a source from the environment ministry's (MMA) regional evaluation office told BNamericas.
Vancouver-based Bear Creek Mining (TSX-V: BCM) is waiting for Peru's justice system to resolve the impasse over its Santa Ana silver concession in Puno region, the company's operations VP Elsiario Antúndez de Mayolo told BNamericas.
