Vale to use unmanned equipment to help shut down two dams

The $400 million plant expansion, once complete, would allow the Chinese-backed SQM to eventually produce as much as 180,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate a year from its Atacama salt flat operations.

More than half the company’s 2018 gold production came from its Los Filos gold mine in Mexico, which produced 195,362 oz. gold last year.

The Nivre deposit contains 18.9 million indicated tonnes grading 1.09 grams gold per tonne for 665,000 ounces of gold.

The newly installed panels at the Los Bronces copper mine have the capacity to produce 86 kilowatts.

Southern Copper had not made an offer on the lithium project in Mexico, but there's also a Chinese company that's interested.

The mine is the company’s biggest in the South American country.

The expanded Los Filos project will have a 20-year mine life (2019-2028) during which time 3.2 million oz. of gold will be recovered.

Brazil's government wants Congress to reconsider a decades-old proposal to allow mining in indigenous reserves, which occupy 13% of the country's territory.

Mining stopped on March 8, when members of the Asociación Obrera Minera Argentina (AOMA) downed tools, and processing activities have now also ceased following the exhaustion of surface stockpiles.