Colombia saw 128 mining accidents in 2021, which killed 148 dead.

The Canadian junior is developing a copper-gold-silver project straddling the border between Argentina and Chile.

The need for battery metals is propelling many projects in resource-rich South America, but gold and silver projects retain their appeal, too.

The company will also undertake a series of obligations to remove all of its upstream tailing dams.

Brazilian soybean farmers are buying fertilizers for planting that starts in September and are likely to pay higher prices than US producers who have already bought their nutrients.

The Colmena mission, which means "beehive" in Spanish, will gather lunar minerals that could be useful in future space mining.

World top copper producer produced 1.618 million tonnes at its own mines in 2021.