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Chile’s State-owned copper producer Codelco named Octavio Araneda as CEO, following the departure of Nelson Pizarro.

Pizarro handed in his resignation on Friday during a board meeting at the company’s headquarters in Santiago, Codelco said in a statem…

The expansion of the Proyecto Riotinto mine to 15-million tonnes a year is about to be finalised, paving the way for the Spain-based copper operation to increase production to between 50 000 t/y and 55 000 t/y in 2020. Mechanical completion was expecte…

Latin America’s second-largest copper producer got the green light to build a giant mine that’s key to plans to become one of the world’s top three producers of the metal.

The Peruvian government awarded Southern Copper the license to start building i…

Chile’s economic activity rose 2.3% in May from the same month a year ago, the central bank said on Friday, as the top copper producer´s crucial mining sector continued to lag. The IMACEC economic activity index encompasses about 90% of the economy tal…

Top copper producer Codelco is again delaying the return to normal operations at its Chuquicamata smelter. Some parts of the smelter are operating normally, including the flash oven and one acid plant, a Codelco official said in an email in reply to qu…

Solaris Copper’s subsidiary Solaris Copper Chile has entered into a definitive earn-in option agreement with Minera Freeport-McMoRan South America with respect to Freeport’s Tamarugo property in Chile. Tamarugo is a grassroots copper porphyry target co…

North America-focused base and precious metals exploration and development company Phoenix Global Mining has changed its name to Phoenix Copper. The company, which is listed on the London’s Aim market, owns the Empire copper project, in Idaho, in the US.