China top copper producer halts output after pollution order Production should be halted for at least a week. Bloomberg News | December 27, 2017 | 7:30 am
Spain’s OHL to oversee El Teniente’s tailings facility The Madrid-based firm signed a $20-million-dollar contract. Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | December 26, 2017 | 4:24 pm
China halts oil product exports to North Korea in November as sanctions bite Beijing also imported no iron ore, coal or lead from North Korea in November. Reuters | December 26, 2017 | 10:20 am
Solgold shares surge on latest drilling at giant Ecuador copper project Brisbane-based company promised maiden resource for Cascabel copper-gold porphyry on the Andean belt before the end of the year. Frik Els | December 22, 2017 | 3:36 pm
Prehistoric bling: Research uncovers factors behind the development of earliest copper alloys The colour properties of prehistoric copper alloys have largely been understudied. Until now. Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | December 22, 2017 | 1:20 pm
MINING.com’s top news stories of the year Copper and bitcoin. Michael Allan McCrae | December 22, 2017 | 12:13 pm
Workers end strike at Teck’s mine in Chile Union No. 1 was asking for a bonus scheme that would put the organization on equal footing with the Quebrada Blanca's two other unions. Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | December 22, 2017 | 10:52 am
Alaska’s Pebble Mine project kicks off permitting process The application is a milestone for a project that seemed dead during the Obama administration. Now it is moving forward under President Donald Trump. Reuters | December 21, 2017 | 4:20 pm
U.S. sanctions Israeli billionaire Gertler over Congo deals US Treasury said Gertler has used his close relationship with the country’s president, Joseph Kabila, to amass a fortune through corrupt and opaque deals. Bloomberg News | December 21, 2017 | 4:08 pm
