Miner argues the dismissal is not consistent with the environmental assessment process that took place over the past two years.

The company also estimated its own production for the medium term at between 230,000 and 245,000 tonnes of nickel per year.

If the demands are not resolved, workers plan stoppages at the world's largest copper mine on Sep. 12 and 14, and then they would initiate an indefinite strike.

The plan for Silver Mountain is to restart production at Reliquias - an underground mine with potential mineral resources distributed over 10 veins.

The cash-strapped Canadian miner is likely to default on several material debtor agreements owing to liquidity constraints.

In 2018, a judge ruled in favor of the A'i Cofan community and ordered the reversal of some 20 mining concessions granted to private companies along the Aguarico River.

Data released Tuesday states the rate was constant at 0.09 failures per billion tonnes of production in both the decades of 2000-2009 and 2010-2019.

The financing proceeds will be used to advance Torq's portfolio of projects in Chile, primarily the Santa Cecilia gold-copper project.