Chilean lithium producer SQM bullish on white gold demand

Peru's President Ollanta Humala declared a state of emergency and has now enlisted the help of the clergy after deadly clashes but the violence shows no signs of letting up.

Hong Kong's Honbridge Holdings plans to build a 420 kilometre pipeline to move iron-ore from Brazil's Minas Gerais state to the coast in stead of building a railway line for its new $3.6 billion – $4.2 billion mine.

Colombian coal workers voted on Saturday to strike over pay and working conditions at the 3-million-tonne-per-year La Jagua mine of Glencore's Prodeco unit, a union said. Colombia is the world's fourth-largest coal exporter and Glencore's La Jagua - one of the mining concessions it owns in the nation - has some of the country's highest quality coal.

A Bolivian farmer died on Friday and at least four others were injured when protesters occupied the Malku Khota project, operated by Canadian South American Silver in the Andean highlands.

Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold company, said a new ruling outlawing mining near glaciers in Argentina will not interfere with its Pascua-Lama mine, one of the world’s largest new projects targeting the precious metal.

Xstrata has delayed voting on a merger with Glencore as investors continue to dictate the offer and unions become more vocal about their concerns over the deal.

With the recent announcement that there’s much more copper in the Los Azules copper project in Argentina than initially thought, the stakes in a lawsuit contesting its ownership have become much higher.

Peruvian police detained former Roman Catholic priest Marco Arana, the leader of the protests against Newmont Mining, yesterday evening. The situation has only worsened since the government declared a state of emergency.

Pan American Silver is warning its shareholders that if the reform of mining law in Argentina's Chubut Province is approved, the company will have to declare its Navidad Project "uneconomic."