Thursday
,
03 Jul 2008
What is believed to the world’s sixth largest manganese deposit got a welcome boost Wednesday as Baja Mining announced it has closed the sale of 30% of the Boleo project to a Korean Consortium.
Thursday
,
03 Jul 2008
Global copper prices hit a two-month high while stocks of mining companies dropped as more strikers continued to walk off the job at Peruvian mines.
Monday
,
30 Jun 2008
Peruvian miners are set to shut down the county's mining industry and blockade roads to bring pressure on the government to approve a law eliminating limits on profit sharing.
Tuesday
,
24 Jun 2008
The rift between Ecuador’s President and former Assembly chief Alberto Acosta is important for foreign mining investment as projects remain on hold.
Tuesday
,
24 Jun 2008
Through its proposed “Plan of Arrangement” with Skye Resources, HudBay may acquire one of the possibly least problematic brownfield nickel laterite projects available, a former ferro-nickel mine and smelter in eastern Guatemala.
Monday
,
23 Jun 2008
An investigative team is studying the motives for the slayings of eight miners at a diamond camp in southeast Guyana, fearing it could be the work of a gang that has reportedly already murdered 23 people.
Saturday
,
21 Jun 2008
Perceptions that wealth generated by multinational mining companies is not being passed on to the nation's poor has been behind recent unrest in Peru - and there may yet be more to come.
Friday
,
20 Jun 2008
Although Peruvian government officials have apparently struck a deal to end the blockade of major roads, and Southern Copper’s Ilo smelter and Cuajone mine, all may not quite be over yet.
Friday
,
20 Jun 2008
Through its decision to buy Hecla’s Venezuelan assets, Rusoro Mining hopes to mine 220,000 ounces of gold this year from its Venezuelan operations.
Wednesday
,
18 Jun 2008
In the long running Crystallex saga, the company has said it will launch another appeal to attempt to reverse the denial of mining rights for its Las Cristinas deposit in Venezuela.
Monday
,
16 Jun 2008
Residents of the Peruvian province of Moquegua have blockaded roads and left cities short of food and/or fuel over distribution of mining revenues to alleviate problems of the poor.
Saturday
,
14 Jun 2008
The local population of the Peruvian province of Moquegua have been blockading main roads and mine accesses in protest over not receiving sufficient benefits from mining sector taxes, virtually cutting off food and fuel supplies to the southernmost province of Tacna.
Wednesday
,
11 Jun 2008
There is a current debate in Chile over whether to privatise the world’s biggest copper producer, Codelco, responsible for an important proportion of the national budget.
Tuesday
,
03 Jun 2008
With the $70m Sumitomo deferred payment deal for San Cristobal’s silver and zinc output, Apex Silver gives investors what they want -- more liquidity.
Tuesday
,
03 Jun 2008
As conservative rightist supporters successfully battered away at the socialist agenda of the Evo Morales Administration in yet another two provinces, the President Monday nationalized yet another foreign energy-related company.
Saturday
,
31 May 2008
The recent ruling by the country's environment ministry prohibiting large scale gold mining development in Venezuela's Imataca Forest raises mining sector nationalisation fears again.
Wednesday
,
28 May 2008
Coeur d’Alene Mines Corp. of the US is inaugurating its San Bartolome mine in Bolivia today which it claims will be the world’s biggest pure silver mining operation.
Monday
,
26 May 2008
The volatile Mexican mining unions have been called out on a 24-hour strike over demands that the Labor Ministry confirms the re-election of Union leader Napoleon Gomez.
Friday
,
23 May 2008
As the Asarco bankruptcy inches closer to a sale, Grupo Mexico has dug in and insisted that—with the correct information—it can fund a 100% repayment plan to the U.S. base metals company’s creditors.
Thursday
,
22 May 2008
Despite all the excitement surrounding the Peñasquito project, Goldcorp investors and mining analysts were reminded Wednesday that there’s still considerable life in the old gal yet at the flagship Red Lake gold mine.
Friday
,
16 May 2008
As Silver Standard anticipates the start-up of its first major mine late this year in Argentina, the company is confident of its liquidity and negotiations concerning mining export taxes.
