The wet season in the austral summer has caused havoc in northern Chile.
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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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Hard rock lithium concentrate swamping China drops spodumene prices 17% in January with more pain likely.
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A key asset is the Oyu Tolgoi copper project in Mongolia, which will partially diversify the miner’s earnings away from iron ore.
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The lithium miner, the world’s second largest producer of the white metal, has approved additional measures to protect corporate data considered confidential from China’a Tianqi, which recently bought almost a quarter of the Chilean company.
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Copper production reached a five-year high, more than offsetting output declines at Minas Rio in Brazil and Kumba in South Africa.
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The miner produced 220,000 tonnes of the red metal in the three months to December, up 16% from the previous quarter, boosted by higher throughput and improved copper grades.
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Three incidents occurred during the second half of 2018 hit BHP’s production volumes by 4 million tonnes of iron ore and 70,000 tonnes of copper.
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Robert Mayne-Nicholls has worked in companies such as Codelco, Antofagasta and Barrick Gold.
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Canada’s cobalt sector and Ecuador’s budding mining sector for copper and gold will be investment hot spots.
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