Miner and trader Glencore said trade barriers are its "foremost risk", but climate, political, legal and other risks had become more prominent. Glencore, said in its annual report published on Friday that it was seeking to mitigate these challe…
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Indonesian authorities had to amputate the leg of a victim trapped under rubble to pull him out of a collapsed gold mine on Sulawesi island, as the slow and harrowing rescue operation entered its third day on Friday.
But the miner, trapped with dozen…
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The Peruvian government will likely grant Southern Copper Corp a construction license for its $1.4-billion Tia Maria project before its environmental permit expires in August, the Energy and Mines Minister told Reuters on Thursday.
Southern Copper has…
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The Peruvian government will likely grant Southern Copper Corp a construction license for its $1.4-billion Tia Maria project before its environmental permit expires in August, the Energy and Mines Minister told Reuters on Thursday.
Southern Copper has…
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Chilean miner SQM said on Thursday it foresees strong long-term demand for lithium but offered a short-term prognosis clouded by the entry of new projects into the market and slowing growth of demand for the product this year.
The company’s new chief…
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Chilean miner SQM said on Thursday it foresees strong long-term demand for lithium but offered a short-term prognosis clouded by the entry of new projects into the market and slowing growth of demand for the product this year.
The company’s new chief…
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Aurubis, Europe’s biggest copper smelter, is still seeking growth via acquisitions, CEO Juergen Schachler said on Thursday.
"As a practically debt-free company we possess a comfortable financial scope," Schachler said in an advanced release of…
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Chile’s Chuquicamata underground copper mine is due to start operations in middle of this year, the State copper miner Codelco’s chairman said on Wednesday.
Chairman Juan Benavides said the start-up will be "a fundamental step and milestone in thi…
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Brazilian Senate committees on Wednesday passed a bill to tighten dam safety in the country, after a mining dam owned by Vale SA burst and killed an estimated 300 people in the town of Brumadinho.
The legislation, which tightens safety regulations on …
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A Brazilian judge on Wednesday ordered the release from jail of several Vale workers arrested last month in a criminal investigation of a deadly mine accident, saying there was no risk they would flee or destroy evidence.
Separately, Vale’s debt was d…
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