ANIMATION: Top 20 gold producing countries – 2020

“The outlook for all ratings is negative.”

The Chilean government will actively be seeking investors for 25 new mining projects when it attends the PDAC Convention in Toronto next week.

Codelco's second largest copper operation by size is expected to fully transition to underground block cave mining this year.

Miner will pay a special dividend worth $4 billion, or $2.43 cent a share, as it recorded its highest annual underlying earnings in the last five years.

The world's second largest miner has confirmed an "exciting" copper find at its Winu project, in the Paterson Range in the East Pilbara.

The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), a London-based industry group representing 27 companies, is setting an independent panel of experts to develope a global standard for tailings facilities to be enforced to its members.

The portfolio would include their Kalgoorlie super pit 50/50 joint-venture in Western Australia, as well as other regional assets such as Porgera, Tanami and Boddington mines.

The world's largest primary silver producer and Mexico's No.2 gold miner warned of possible lower prices, higher inflation and worsening foreign exchange rates in 2019.

Freeport is "comfortable" with engineering designs in place at existing dams.