Meteoric is developing its Caldeira rare earths deposit in Minas Gerais.

The new lawsuit comes as Vale and BHP hope to reach a tentative agreement by the end of this month.

A tailings dam belonging to copper miner Las Cenizas in central Chile began overflowing overnight on June 13.

A passenger train on a test run by Chile's state rail operator collided with a private cargo train carrying about 1,346 metric tons of copper on Thursday.

Chile's financial regulator allowed a planned lithium joint venture between SQM and Codelco to proceed without a vote by SQM shareholders.

The mining giant sees the potential to expand production capacity to about 500,000 tons of copper by 2028 mainly through improvements to its Salobo and Sossego mines in Brazil.

A court decision halted the mine at the beginning of April.

Santa Cruz will be the first new graphite production in the Americas since 1996.