Company is moving its Huaron and Morococha operations into care and maintenance in response to several workers at the mines recently testing positive for covid-19.

The Chinese company bought its equity stake in the miner in December 2019.

His nomination comes after the board approved the creation of a compliance division as part of recommendations given by an independent committee in February.

Local media report that BHP is proposing the idea of expanding the use of the covid-19 contact tracing app beyond its mine sites.

Crystallex International is seeking to enforce a $1.4 billion arbitration award against Venezuela, most of which remains unpaid.

Bento Albuquerque said revenue from mineral production in H1 2020 was 1% higher than in the first half of 2019.

IGF has launched the Future of Resource Taxation, a new initiative aiming to improve the way governments collect revenue from the mining sector.

RBC Capital Markets has raised its silver price forecasts by 16% in 2020, 17% in 2021 and 14% in 2022.