Argentina’s President-elect Fernandez a boon for miners, despite expected protectionism
He has vowed to revisit the country’s controversial glacier protection law, and said his team is working on clear rules for the natural resources sector.
He has vowed to revisit the country’s controversial glacier protection law, and said his team is working on clear rules for the natural resources sector.
Environmental concerns have moved to the top of the agenda in recent years with heightened awareness of climate change amid public protests.
This year’s winner of The Northern Miner’s $5,000 scholarship is Tyler Sieben, a student in his final year of mining engineering at the University of Alberta.
Canada’s largest diversified miner will continue to forge ahead with its key Quebrada Blanca Phase 2 project in Chile.
The world’s No. 1 gold miner has started a 10-day process of bringing Peñasquito back to full production.
Local and international companies are being lured by the area's untouched gold riches, but groups warn of potential impacts to watersheds and communities.
Adjusted quarterly operating earnings rose to 4.62 billion Swedish crowns ($477 million) from 4.59 billion a year earlier, beating the 4.48 billion mean forecast.
The United States was once the world’s biggest producer of primary aluminum. But by the time Trump took office, production had dwindled to the level last seen in 1951.
The Carmichael mine has been a lighting rod for climate change concerns in Australia.
Ethical investors have called for the suspension, arguing BHP's membership of some industry organisations funds pro-coal lobbying.