MINING.COM

Glencore’s Dominican mine saved by the President

President Danilo Medina vetoed bill creating a National Park, which would have blocked the expansion of Glencore's Falcondo mine.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 3, 2014 | 7:24 pm

Anglo American to pay $4.5m for environmental breaches in Chile

Authorities say the firm violated 16 environmental rules at El Soldado copper mine, located about 130 km northwest of capital Santiago.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 3, 2014 | 4:31 pm

Tension building up in the global copper market

Tension has been a feature of the copper market since the middle of last year but, so far, the net result has generally been stalemate and prices have moved sideways.

SNL Metals & Mining | September 3, 2014 | 4:26 pm

Goldcorp suspends operations at El Sauzal mine

As of this year, the mine produced 37,000 ounces of gold.

Michael Allan McCrae | September 2, 2014 | 10:58 pm

Mexico forces partial closure of mine responsible for massive toxic spill

Mexico's environmental prosecutor has imposed a new partial order of closure on Grupo Mexico’s Buenavista copper mine.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 2, 2014 | 6:40 pm

Chile’s Escondida mine to bring BHP, Rio higher than expected dividends

Deutsche Bank analysts foresee a 2% to 3% earnings increase for the miners.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 2, 2014 | 4:40 pm

China’s antitrust crackdown threatens BHP demerger

Following a meeting with BHP’s China boss, Beijing issued a statement saying it believed that “BHP and other iron ore suppliers should avoid abusing dominant market positions."

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 2, 2014 | 10:34 am