Company will use a 120-MW photovoltaic system to generate electricity for a lithium extraction plant in Salta province's Salar de Llullaillaco.

The Mining Council wrote a document outlining how the companies would like to operate under the new constitution.

The FTC, which brings together unions at Chile’s state-owned copper producer Codelco, wants privately-run mines to pay 75% of earnings in tax.

The bus was transporting workers from Hochschild's Pallancata operation to the city of Arequipa in the south of Peru.

The West Wall project is located in the same geological belt as some of South America's largest copper deposits.

Anglo American has become the first mining company to subscribe to the IUCN’s eBioAtlas.