From Barrick to First Quantum: Top miners look ahead to 2020

Prices of the metal have been fallen in the second half of this year as the prospect of a rate rise, the first since 2006, would lift the opportunity cost of holding bullion.

About 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater, triple previous estimates, have poured from an old Colorado gold mine into local streams since Wednesday last week.

Codelco, the world's No.1 copper producer, confirmed it will start legal actions against protesters this week.

The cuts represent 14% of what was once a 4,300 workforce.

According to local newspaper El Mercurio, the unnamed fund is buying Anglo's Mantoverde and Mantos Blancos copper mines.

Inspectors are currently at the site, but haven't been able to determine how the birds died or whether others are injured.

While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was investigating pollutants at an old gold mine, it accidentally released an estimated one million gallons of mining waste into a creek.

The latest offer was unchanged in its value, but included a more formal “business combination agreement,” K+S said

Talks are set to resume on Wednesday, Aug. 12.