Record profits and blockbuster dividends: Here come the miners

The company reported lower than expected full-year profit in February while warning of headwinds including lower precious metals prices for 2019.

Deal creates the world’s largest gold producer by output, robing Barrick of its recently cemented supremacy.

In 2017, Chile's Superintendency of Environmental Affairs filed a notice saying the campaign violated the country's environmental regulations.

Codelco returns all of its profits to the state and is funded by a mix of capitalization and debt.

Demand for copper is expected to take off by the mid-2020s, but Chile is saddled with mines facing crippling declines in ore grades and a system that allows the bulk of its exploration concessions to sit idle.

Attempts to replace copper in a lithium-ion battery's anode with aluminum have failed so far, which bodes well for major copper miners.

Oil prices jumped to five-month highs this week, pushed higher by a bullish cocktail of supply outages, geopolitical unrest and a sputtering shale sector.

The net proceeds would be used to advance other development projects and retire a portion of the company’s debt.

KGHM's foreign assets have struggled with rising costs, falling copper prices, technical problems and higher-than-expected capital spending.