BHP scraps $2.5bn Olympic Dam expansion plan

Company said blockade was in response to a recently announced bonus offer in lieu of profit sharing.

Modifications seek to simplify aspects of the project originally approved in 2010 in order to optimize mineral handling.

Two days before Antofgasta's annual general meeting in London, an 18-pages long report by the London Mining Network slams Los Pelambres' environmental record.

The company said that today’s announcement is part of its ongoing capital management plan.

The company, which could lose the arbitration as a result, will have to pay the amount to former partner Vale.

An NGO based in the southern Bolívar state is calling the Venezuelan government to kill the 2016 decree that creates the Mining Arch of the Orinoco River National Development Strategic Zone.

The deal, worth about $400 million, will make Trevali the first pure zinc producer with operations in North and South America as well as Africa.

Cobre Panama project is now 50% complete and on track to produce 320,000 tonnes of copper in 2019, making the company one of the world’s top six producers of the red metal.

Companies are pressing the government to better regulate public consultations and votes on mining projects, as they see legal uncertainty as the industry's main current challenge.