China zooms in on Latin America, Africa in critical minerals race — report

High-grade core within the Llaguen mineral resource includes 113 million tonnes of indicated resources at 0.60% copper-equivalent.

Production from state-owned giant Codelco fell 7.92% on a year-on-year basis to 123,200 tonnes.

The new Lithium Americas company will own the Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada and investments in Green Technology Metals and Ascend Elements.

Las Bambas, owned by Chinese firm MMG Ltd, is one of the largest copper mines in the world.

Vale is seeking to raise more than $2 billion from the deal, Bloomberg sources say.

Vale is expected to build and operate iron ore concentration and briquetting plants within the hubs.

Hochschild did not say if production had been affected, but noted protesters are blocking the entrance to the Inmaculada mine since Oct. 27.

The bottom line came in at 238 million reais, while its EBITDA fell 37% to 2.714 billion reais.

Mexico is looking to build five large solar plants, to help remodel car factories for electric vehicles and produce batteries and semiconductors in the state of Sonora.