Canada’s largest diversified miner saw its quarterly profit drop 41.5 % from the year earlier, amid lower prices for copper, zinc and oil.
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The country’s environmental agency OEFA detected a “flow of a greenish solution” into the nearby Torata River in the waste deposit area of the copper mine, located in the Moquegua region.
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SolGold is frustrated at the rejection of its planned bid for Canadian firm Cornerstone, which holds 15% of the Cascabel copper-gold project in Ecuador.
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Codelco has halted operations at its Chuquicamata and Ministro Hales copper mines; Freeport-McMoRan suspended El Abra.
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Measure comes two weeks after another Vale dam burst in Brumadinho town, also in Minas Gerais state, killing at least 157 people, with nearly 200 still missing and feared dead.
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Brucutu, which has an annual capacity of 30 million tonnes of iron ore, is Brazil’s second largest mine, behind Vale’s Carajás.
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A video shows the exact moment when a dam at Vale’s Córrego do Feijão mining complex burst.
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Strategic alliance expands Barrick’s exploration footprint in the Guiana Shield, a significantly under-explored region and one of the most prospective in the world for large scale gold discoveries.
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This is the first time Cusco’s regional prosecutor is able to issue this type of sentence.
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Wood Mackenzie forecasts that global lead production will increase in 2019 by about 250 kt.
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