Latin America Top Stories

Luminex hits high grades with Camp step-out hole

Drill in Ecuador hole returned 21 metres of 4.26 g/t gold and 26.3 g/t silver starting at 617 metres downhole.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 28, 2020 | 3:28 pm

First Quantum revises guidance for 2020

The company has reduced its copper guidance for the year…

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 28, 2020 | 3:04 pm

World’s mine workers resist quick restart amid coronavirus

Unions in both South Africa and Peru are openly encouraging…

Reuters | April 28, 2020 | 10:08 am

Extended lockdowns to hit copper production

Antamina reported 210 positive cases of covid-19 in Peru and…

MINING.com Editor | April 27, 2020 | 3:31 pm

Freeport’s El Abra mine in Chile to scale back processing

Company said it would scale back copper processing by 40%.

Reuters | April 27, 2020 | 1:20 pm

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Panama Diamond Exchange to host high-level seminar on anti-money laundering and Kimberley Process

One-day seminar, which will be conducted in English, to take place July 22.

Panama Diamond Exchange | July 17, 2014 | 7:15 am

Barrick Gold ousts CEO Sokalsky in major shakeup

The Toronto-based firm has shown president and CEO Jamie Sokalsky the door two years into the job, and less than three months after a breakdown in merger talks with its largest rival.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 16, 2014 | 1:00 pm

Grupo Mexico considers mining for rare earths

The news come only weeks after the government announced it would begin funding explorations projects to locate deposits of the coveted elements.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 15, 2014 | 11:00 am

First Majestic hits silver output record, to spin-out non-core assets

Production at its five operating silver mines in Mexico hit a record of almost 3.86 million equivalent ounces of silver for the second quarter ending June 30.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 14, 2014 | 2:00 pm

BHP sell-off could undo Billiton historic deal

As BHP considers the sale of almost all of the businesses that Billiton brought to the 2001 merger deal, experts say the firm is likely to end up leaving London.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 13, 2014 | 4:40 pm

Barrick Gold gets partner to mine for copper in Saudi Arabia

The miner has agreed to form a joint venture with Saudi Arabian Mining Co (Ma'aden) to run its Jabal Sayid asset.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 13, 2014 | 9:00 am

Lundin Mining acquires Freeport-McMoRan copper mine in Chile — report

The transaction would be worth over $2 billion.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 11, 2014 | 7:02 pm

Peru set to become world’s second largest copper producer in 2016

Currently China is the second largest producer of the red metal, with an annual output of about 1.6 million tonnes per year.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 11, 2014 | 5:12 pm

First Quantum resumes construction at Cobre Panama, hunts for new deals

The miner is now looking for new projects that will allow it to return more than 30% average value to shareholders, president Clive Newall said.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 10, 2014 | 11:13 am

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