Vale approves list of board candidates

Targeting close or ready for production.

Labor negotiations are entering into the final three weeks before a 30-month contract expires at the end of July.

Mantos Copper bought the Mantos Blancos and Mantoverde copper mines from Anglo for $300 million plus $200 million in conditional future payments.

From the 32 contracts set to expire in 2018 at Chilean mines, there still are more than a dozen to be negotiated before year-end.

Shares jumped after the company said it had submitted additional technical studies to environmental and natural resources authority for permitting approval at its La India project.

"Our priority is to develop our existing lithium deposit in Argentina. But we are also looking for other deposits in Chile, Argentina and Brazil,"- Eramet Chief Executive Officer Christel Bories

Investigation is casting a wider net with the addition of Venezuela and Nigeria to its investigation, increasing the likelihood that Glencore’s management will get bogged down in a lengthy legal process.

Eike Batista, who was once one of the richest men in the world, was found guilty of bribing former Rio de Janeiro governor Sergio Cabral in exchange for contracts.

Despite bullish forecasts for global demand, lithium may have a funding problem.