Dual-listed Jubilee Metals has, in line with its stated strategy to expand operations in Zambia, signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with a private Zambian company to secure the rights to process two-million tonnes of copper run-of-mine (RoM) materia…
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Chile’s largest copper mines boosted output in June, according to government statistics released late on Tuesday, churning out more of the red metal even as the coronavirus outbreak hit its stride in the South American mining powerhouse.
The Chilean C…
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Chile’s copper output fell in June for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic landed in the world´s top producer of the red metal, dropping 0.6% to 472 172 t, according to data released on Friday by government statistics agency INE.
The South A…
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TSX- and ASX-listed Copper Mountain Mining has exceeded its revised operating plan announced on March 10, with second quarter production of 23.9-million pounds of copper equivalent, comprising of 18.1-million pounds of copper, 7 499 oz of gold and 86 1…
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TSX-listed copper miner First Quantum Minerals has reported a comparative second-quarter loss of $84-million, or $0.12 a share, compared with earnings of $87-million a year earlier.
The company’s net loss increased to $156-million in the three months …
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Workers at state-owned Chilean copper behemoth Codelco have rejected a suggestion by a coalition partner of President Sebastian Pinera that the company be sold off to fund the response to the coronavirus pandemic. An internal document attributed to the…
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Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) says it has made a “promising” discovery in Western Australia, about 2 km east of its Winu copper-gold project,…
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Mining and processing has started at the Celesta copper project, located near the town of Curionópolis, in northern Brazil, with first concentrates due to be shipped in early August, reports TSX-listed Lara Exploration. Lara owns a 2% net smelter retur…
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TSX-listed copper miner Capstone Mining Corporation’s Pinto Valley mine has successfully demonstrated positive economics from enhanced dump leach performance by partnering with technology-driven natural resources company Jetti Resources.
Capstone is u…
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Supervisors at Antofagasta Minerals’ Centinela copper mine in Chile have agreed to a new contract offer, avoiding the possibility of a strike, the union president said on Monday. The supervisors’ union agreed last week to extend government-mediated tal…
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