Aura Minerals to pay $60m in dividends, shares up

Guidance reconfirmed.

Production in the second-quarter of the year jumped 6.1% to 163,200 tonnes, as higher output at its Centinela and Antucoya mines mitigated declines at Los Pelambres and Zaldívar.

Vale announced an adjusted EBITDA of US$3.9 billion in Q2 with iron ore production of 96.8 tonnes and sales of 86.5 tonnes.

Brazilian authorities ordered Hydro in February to slash output from Alunorte, the world's largest alumina refinery.

The ongoing trade war between the United States and China has forced the Chilean Copper Commission (Cochilco) to revise downwards its average copper price prediction by $0.06 per pound to $3.

Companies can now perform non-systematic drilling during the early exploration phase of their mining concessions and without requiring an environmental license.

Law firm leading the action says it has more than 3,000 investors signed up to pursue the miner for losses.

The $502-million transaction makes the Chinese company Arab Potash's majority shareholder.

Labor negotiations at Chile's Escondida copper mine, the world's largest, are frozen without signs of progress.