Latin America Top Stories

Copper giants safe in our hands, Chile leftist’s campaign says

Mining heavyweights such as BHP and Anglo American have nothing to fear if former student protest leader Gabriel Boric becomes Chile’s next president, according to one of his top advisers.

Bloomberg News | November 5, 2021 | 2:25 pm

Antamina CEO seeks ‘common ground’ after protests

Protests against miners in Peru, the world's No. 2 copper…

Reuters | November 5, 2021 | 10:53 am

Vale cashes in on fertilizer boom with $1.3 billion Mosaic stock sale

Brazilian iron ore giant thinks it’s time to cash in…

Bloomberg News | November 5, 2021 | 8:14 am

Minera Alamos pours first gold at Santana mine in Mexico

Gold was recovered from material stacked during summer and intended…

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 5, 2021 | 7:06 am

A squeeze on lithium has top producer ‘going as fast as we can’

Albemarle plans to start sales from a new plant in…

Bloomberg News | November 4, 2021 | 5:04 pm

Stung by sliding prices, lithium industry pares back expansions

Albemarle, SQM and other lithium producers have been scaling back expansion plans as near-term oversupply concerns drag on prices.

Reuters | October 28, 2019 | 5:10 am

Mexican governors reject cuts to mining fund

The Senate reallocated the resources in the fund from communities surrounding mining operations to the Public Education Secretariat.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 27, 2019 | 10:25 am

BHP and Vale’s Samarco licensed to restart operations

The news comes four years after the company's tailings dam burst at Germano in Brazil's worst environmental disaster.

MINING.com Editor | October 25, 2019 | 3:16 pm

Vale CEO says not yet time to resume dividends

The company struggles to restore production lost after regulators demanded that it shut down a series of other dams for safety reasons.

Reuters | October 25, 2019 | 9:38 am

ABB mill drives accelerate copper ore extraction at Mina de Cobre in Panama

Project owner First Quantum Minerals announced that first copper ore extraction will take place ahead of schedule.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | October 25, 2019 | 6:15 am

Vale earnings miss, says to shut 3 more dams

Vale's net profit rose to $1.654 billion from $1.408 billion in the year-ago period, missing the $2.72 billion mean of analysts polled by Refinitiv.

Reuters | October 24, 2019 | 3:44 pm

Teck to lay off workers, cut spending as US-China trade war weighs on profit

Canada’s largest diversified miner will continue to forge ahead with its key Quebrada Blanca Phase 2 project in Chile.

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 24, 2019 | 3:55 am

MAPPED: Top gold drill results – August 2019

A trend towards exploration of advanced projects, rather than greenfield opportunities, returned in August.

MINING.com Editor | October 23, 2019 | 3:01 pm

Machine learning yields positive results for Gran Colombia

The Toronto-based miner confirmed the targets identified by a high-tech system put in place at its Segovia operation.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | October 23, 2019 | 6:15 am

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