Filo Mining upsizes private placement, shares rise

The company expects sales from $5.8 billion to $6.2 billion this year, up from its previous estimate of $5.2 billion to $5.6 billion.

Chile’s government is looking at a gradual implementation for a proposed ban on mining near glaciers in order to limit the impact on some of the world’s biggest copper mines.

President Pedro Castillo replaced four ministers amid a mining and fertilizer crisis.

Bolivia has a history of unfulfilled promise with lithium.

The Gabriel Boric administration is keen to get more closely involved in the booming market for lithium.

Mineral explorers and developers often see substantial projects halted in their tracks by staunch community-level opposition, even when projects had passed regulatory muster.

La Plata has previously been identified by Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso as a "strategic project".

The Araguaia nickel mine in northern Brazil is set to produce 29,000 tonnes of the battery metal a year for the steel market. 

Samarco became unable to pay its $10.2 billion debt after its waste dam collapsed in 2015, killing 19 people.