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Robust copper price prompts switch to aluminum

It's a trend already established in China where only 25% of insulated and overhead cables use copper versus 60% in developed economies.

Frik Els | July 30, 2014 | 2:48 pm

BHP firing 6% of workforce in Chile’s Pampa Norte division

Division encompasses the Spence and Cerro Colorado copper mines.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 30, 2014 | 1:15 pm

Newmont to spend $900 million to develop Suriname gold mine

Gold reserves of 4.2 million ounces at an average grade of 1.22 grams per tonne

MINING.COM Staff Writer | July 29, 2014 | 11:26 pm

US utilities turn to Colombia, Russia for coal in 2014

Less expensive than burning domestic coal.

SNL Energy | July 29, 2014 | 5:29 pm

Goldcorp pours first gold at Argentina’s Cerro Negro mine

The miner poured the initial dole bar at a weight of 100 kilograms containing an estimated 317 ounces of gold.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 28, 2014 | 5:09 pm

Beny Steinmetz associate jailed over Guinea’s Simandou case

Frederic Cilins, a French businessman who worked as an intermediary for BSGR in Guinea, became the first person to receive a criminal sentence in a corruption investigation.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 28, 2014 | 11:14 am

Mass grave with hundreds of skeletons found in Bolivian mining town

Hundreds of thousands have died over the years at the city's main silver mine, as a direct result of cave-ins, overwork, hunger and disease.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 27, 2014 | 5:42 pm

Codelco delays $6.8 billion mine expansion, reviews impacts on glaciers

The company says its future depends on the Andina mine expansion, as dwindling ore grades in its old mines are expected to bring annual output down.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 25, 2014 | 3:25 pm

Miners need to overhaul business model to boost productivity: study

Cost reduction measures in the mining industry could well have undermined the sector's productivity, which remains down, according to a new EY report.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 25, 2014 | 11:02 am

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