Sweden seeks lithium tie-ups in South America amid battery metal rush

Copper output in Chile, the world's largest copper producer, tumbled 7.6% in the last 12 months to 396,341 metric tons, the National Statistics Institute (INE), a government statistics agency, announced this morning.

The Chilean government has launched an innovative employment program that aims to allow more women to work within the mining industry. The program will be launched in the northern regions of Tarapaca, Atacama and Coquimbo to begin with and then spread to other regions later in the year.

Should the supermajors join the new platform it would mark the latest shift in the global iron ore business which has been completely transformed in less than a decade.

Mount Kellett calculates that Greenslade, his daughter Denby Greenslade and two directors "would realize $49,193,285 of value through their Baja stock, regardless of whether Catalyst proves successful or not."

A blog entry on Alberta Oil Magazine's website this week asks whether Alberta and Canada should not be paying more attention to political events in Venezuela.

White Tiger Gold shed another 6% on Monday on almost double usual trading volumes, despite releasing high grade drilling results for its Nasedkino project that it says are enough to go ahead with a final feasibility study. The counter is now down 30% year to date and a shadow of its former self in January last year. At the time it was trading at a whopping $4.80.

Baja Mining, locked in a bitter dispute with Mount Kellett Capital Management over control of its board, on Monday accused the asset manager of being "reckless," having a "hidden agenda" and "misleading" shareholders.

Baja Mining is fighting attempts by Mount Kellett, a $6 billion asset manager, to stack the miner's board with its own nominees. Baja is accusing Mount Kellett of a takeover by stealth while MK says Baja is a web of conflicts.

Toronto-based firm's Definitive Feasibility Study for its 100% owned Aurora Gold Project in Guyana, the nation's only large-scale licensed gold mine development project, makes investors see red.