Vale CFO should face criminal indictment for dam, panel says

London-based Anglo American and Chile's state-owned Codelco did not came to an agreement on Friday over disputed copper assets which has had the miners engaged in a bitter legal confrontation for months.

Chile’s government decision to privatize the country’s lithium, announced last week, has the country immersed in a heated debate over who has the right to exploit the vast reserves of the so called “white gold” mineral.

Peruvian authorities met Thursday with representatives of the town of Espinar in southern Peru, to resolve a conflict between the community and Xstrata’s Tintaya copper mine, which they accuse of polluting their land and water supplies.

The lands will be open for mining licenses, but a majority of them are in protected zones, so officials would have to carefully pick specific regions to auction.

Clean, renewable energy and how it can be tapped and produced in Latin America and the Caribbean has been a focus of the Rio+ 20 Earth Summit, taking place this week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Bolivia’s leftist government announced it won’t pay any financial compensation to Swiss miner Glencore after yesterday’s decision to take over its Colquiri tin and zinc mine.

The unusual alert, considered the Association of British Insurer's most serious warning, indicates a breach in corporate governance.

Australian PanTerra Gold restarted operations at its Las Lagunas gold and silver project, in the Dominican Republic, adding that the feed issues to the Albion carbon-in-leach processing plant had been resolved.

Besieged Baja Mining (TSX:BAJ) added another 14% on Wednesday following good gains the day before to trade at $0.205 after announcing it had negotiated a 45-day standstill agreement with lenders for its Boleo project.