Argentina opposition candidate working on plan for mining sector

The $6,334 interest free loan and 3.7% wage hike will also come in handy.

When it comes to its $8.5 billion Pascua Lama project, 2012 was not a great year for Canada’s Barrick Gold.

Inmet shareholders approached directly with sweetened deal

Miners in Latin America are facing both growth and challenges. Heiko Ihle, senior research analyst with Euro Pacific Capital, examines the factors behind these trends.

A Chilean lawyer has filed legal action to force the world’s largest gold producer Barrick Gold executives to appear in a Canadian court to respond to accusations that the company falsified information included in the Pascua Lama protocol between Argentina and Chile in 2004.

Mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) has started paying the Brazilian government $674 million ($1.4 billion real) in a dispute over mining royalties.

Mining, not drugs, main income source for the revolutionary groups in Colombia.

Vale's Carajas iron ore mine is the biggest but some 60 gold explorers are also active in the Brazilian region.

Resource nationalism is one of the main causes of the current commodity prices instability and it is threatening global security, warns London-based Chatham House in its latest report.