Mexico’s Peñasquito mine, one of the country’s leading gold and silver producers, said on Monday that it had temporarily suspended operations to comply with government restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus.
In early April, US min…
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Peru’s Antamina copper mine, controlled by BHP and Glencore, said on Monday that it would halt all operations for at least two weeks to mitigate against the spread of coronavirus.
The mine had previously been continuing to do essential work in produc…
Australia-based MMG is formally withdrawing its 2020 production guidance for the Las Bambas copper mine in Peru, it said on Monday, after the South American country extended a state of emergency to contain the spread of coronavirus.
The miner, which i…
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An armed group stormed a gold mine in northern Mexico and stole bars of gold and silver alloy before fleeing in a light aircraft, mine operator Minas de Oro Nacional said.
Minas de Oro Nacional, a subsidiary of Canadian firm Alamos Gold, said in a sta…
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Freeport-McMoRan, the world’s largest publicly traded copper producer, said on Sunday it has suspended operations at its Chino mine in New Mexico due to the spread of Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus.
The move comes afte…
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Glencore’s Katanga Mining sent 350 workers to be repatriated this week after the copper and cobalt miner delayed the commissioning of an acid plant they were working on in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Lualaba province.
Katanga Mining’s 75%-owned su…
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Outsourced workers at Chile’s State-owned Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, on Thursday slammed the miner’s decision to suspend some contract work as a result of increasing restrictions around the coronavirus outbreak.
Codelco on Wednesday…
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Brazilian miner Vale will prepay 932-million reais ($179.5-million) to roughly 3 000 small suppliers by the end of April, in a move to help ease the economic impact on them from the coronavirus outbreak.
The company said it has already disbursed near…
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Global miner BHP confirmed on Thursday two cases of coronavirus at its Escondida copper mine in Chile, the world´s largest.
The company said in a statement that one in-house worker and one contractor had shown symptoms and tested positive. Several ot…
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Insurance firms have started covering charter flights to carry gold, helping to ease logjams in the bullion supply chain that caused prices to diverge sharply in different markets, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) said on Thursday.
Gold i…
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