Up more than 3% after quake near the city of Calama in main copper producing region of the South American country.

Lawsuit was filed last year after the miner halted payments due to a local group.

Competitive operating costs and supportive government policies are also expected to play a key role in Mexico's mining industry strong recovery.

The latest demonstration of the viability of deepwater projects, even in the post-2014 oil industry era, comes from none other than Brazil.

Polymetallic Penasquito mine produced one million gold equivalent ounces in 2016.

Mining ihas been one of the last sectors to use a surge in computer processing power, cloud data storage and complex algorithms to make sense of huge amounts of scattered information - routine in today’s retail and manufacturing businesses.

Canadian silver miner First Majestic Silver Corp said on Tuesday four miners died from gas intoxication at its La Encantada Silver Mine in Mexico.

The company will pay between $531 million and $956 million depending on the offer's level of acceptance by Volcan shareholders.