Brazil’s Cosan to make iron ore mining debut

Brazil's Vale, which needs court approval to resume production at its Brucutu mine after a deadly dam collapse, told analysts it expects to do so soon.

Workers "decided unanimously to initiate a walk-off beginning the first shift on Friday, June 14.

Discovery comes on the heels of a government's study showing the miner's Cascabel project will be one of the world’s ten largest copper, silver and gold mines.

Lithium miners are seeing investor interest go up in smoke.

The company described a process that evokes the industry standard of using a series of evaporation ponds.

The country produced 96,053 tonnes of the white metal, which is used to make electric vehicle batteries, in 2018.

If you start with a really underwhelming ore body, you’re never going to make any money

Extracting Atacama’s lithium means pumping large amounts of water and churning up salty mud known as brine—and that’s having an irreversible impact on the local environment.

Tianqi last December bought a 23.8 percent share in SQM from Canadian fertilizer company Nutrien for $4.1B, the largest deal in history for a lithium asset.