Hudbay Minerals’ Alan Hair steps down as CEO Former Nevsun Resources leader, Peter Kukielski, will serve as interim-CEO, while the miner looks for a permanent boss. Cecilia Jamasmie | July 10, 2019 | 4:46 am
CHART: Make money in resources? Invest privately Private capital invested in natural resources a decade ago returned 41% – S&P Natural Resources Index hardly broke even. Frik Els | July 9, 2019 | 3:01 pm
Azimut conducts predictive modeling in James Bay region, picks up four projects The company conducted its copper modeling project using public government data and its own proprietary data. Canadian Mining Journal Staff | July 9, 2019 | 2:47 pm
Peru gives Southern Copper construction permit on delayed $1.4bn project Southern Copper has spent years waiting for the final green light that consecutive governments had declined to give. Reuters | July 9, 2019 | 11:45 am
Kaizen completes permitting process at Peruvian gold-copper project Now the Vancouver-based company can set a target date for its 2019 resource expansion and target testing drill program. MINING.COM Staff Writer | July 9, 2019 | 6:25 am
South32 eyes Chile’s Caserones copper mine The Australian miner is said to be mulling the acquisition of the operation, in a deal estimated at over $1 billion. Cecilia Jamasmie | July 9, 2019 | 5:00 am
Power Ore intersects 0.29% CuEq over 295 m at Opemiska The company has received promising assays from two more drill holes at the Opemiska copper mine complex near Chapais. Canadian Mining Journal Staff | July 8, 2019 | 1:50 pm
Brazil to auction mining rights for about 1,000 areas this year Brazil has a backlog of more than 20,000 areas where mining rights expired or were otherwise lost by their previous holders, equivalent to roughly 10% of the areas with pending mining permits. Reuters | July 8, 2019 | 1:21 pm
Congolese army fires in the air during protest near Glencore plant Glencore said in a statement that about 80 people had protested on the national road in the town of Luilu. Reuters | July 8, 2019 | 11:50 am