Initial production at Kamoa-Kakula expected in less than six months
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) announced that underground development at its Kamoa-Kakula copper project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo mined and stockpiled…
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Ivanhoe expects first copper at Kakula in less than a year
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) expects to begin producing copper at its Kakula project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in less than…
BHP to pay $840M to end coal energy dependence in Chile
BHP’s (LSE: BHP; NYSE: BHP) Escondida and Spence copper mines in northern Chile are poised to pay a total of US$840 million for an early…
Rio Tinto sees promise at Winu copper-gold project in Australia
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) says it has made a “promising” discovery in Western Australia, 2 km east of its Winu copper-gold project, which…
Chile struggles to maintain copper production as coronavirus spreads
Workers at Chile’s giant copper mines are caught between the urge to protect themselves and pressure to keep the country’s economy moving. Since declaring a…
Extended lockdowns hit copper production
Peruvian copper mine Antamina, owned by BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP) and Glencore (LSE: GLEN), has reported 210 positive cases of coronavirus and said the…
Ivanhoe trims budget; stays course at Kakula
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) has completed 13.5 km of underground development — 4.2 km ahead of plan — at its Kakula copper project…
Chile court looks at alleged Escondida breaches
A Chilean environmental court will look into the State Defence Council’s (CDE) allegations that the Escondida copper mine, the world’s largest, has caused “irreparable damage”…
SolGold’s Ecuador copper project grows
SolGold’s (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG) Cascabel copper-gold asset in Ecuador received a boost on Tuesday after a long-awaited third resource update for Alpala, the project’s…
Antofagasta halts Los Pelambres expansion project
Antofagasta (LSE: ANTO) has suspended a US$1.3 billion expansion at its Los Pelambres operation in Chile for an estimated four months as the coronavirus pandemic…
COVID-19 kills worker at First Quantum’s Cobre Panama mine
Panama’s Ministry of Health confirmed that one person has died at the Cobre Panamá operation due to complications caused by COVID-19. On Sunday, the government…
Spain allows Atalaya’s Riotinto copper mine to resume operations
Atalaya Mining (LSE: ATYM) has restarted its Riotinto copper mine in Spain after local authorities in Andalucía determined that mining operations supplying other essential industries…