The licence would have allowed Hecla to pump groundwater to supply the proposed copper and silver mine in the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness, an area of glaciated peaks and valleys that take their name from the area’s box-like rock formations.
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Opponents to mining projects in South Africa are often harassed, threatened and sometimes even killed, according to a report by a group of human rights advocates including Human Rights Watch.
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The Canadian miner’s second-largest investor, Waterton Global Resource Management, has filed a lawsuit against the base metals producer in a bid to constrain its ability to solicit proxies.
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Mina do Barroso mine could become the first European supplier of spodumene, a lithium-bearing mineral.
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The Chapada copper-gold mine, in the northwest Brazilian state of Goiás, began production in 2007 and is expected to churn out about 54,500 tonnes of the red metal and 100,000 ounces of gold this year.
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Deal creates the world’s largest gold producer by market value, output and reserves.
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Investment will go towards more drilling, orebody studies, infrastructure improvements and permitting activities.
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If rubber-stamped by the senate, the move would give state-run KGHM a bit more room to breathe, as the miner has been struggling with rising costs, falling copper prices, technical problems and higher-than-expected capital spending in the past years.
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Speaking on the sidelines of the World Copper Conference held this week in Santiago, chief executive Iván Arriagada said the company will only go ahead with the project if it meets Antofagasta’s return criteria.
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Deal creates the world’s largest gold producer by output, robing Barrick of its recently cemented supremacy.
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