Antofagasta’s (LSE: ANTO) Twin Metals Minnesota has received formal notice that its planned copper-nickel-cobalt-platinum metals mine will be assessed through a federal environmental review. The U.S. government’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) notified the company at the end of June…
CHILE – Wenco, a technology solutions company, is expanding its South American presence with Thiess, the world’s largest mining contractor, selecting the Wenco Mine Performance Suite to run its operations at Antofagasta’s Centinela open-pit mine in northern Chile. Antofagasta contracted…
CHILE – ATEX Resources received conditional approval from the TSX Venture Exchange for its acquisition of the Valeriano porphyry copper-gold project, located in Chile. The decision means that ATEX shares will again commence trading on the TSXV on December 5,…
PAKISTAN – The World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has awarded US$5.84 billion in damages to Tethyan Copper Co. following what was deemed an unlawful denial of a mining lease for the Reko Diq copper project.…
TORONTO – Mining companies were celebrated the evening of Nov. 21 for their investments in renewable energy at an awards gala and dinner in Toronto. Mining companies from Canada, Chile, Mexico, Australia, and South Africa received awards for their investments…
TORONTO – Barrick Gold has agreed to sell a 50% interest in its Zaldivar copper mine in Chile to Antofagasta Plc for a slightly more than US$1 billion in cash. The decision followed a highly competitive auction process that involved some…
TORONTO – Duluth Metals has entered into a binding agreement with Antofagasta plc that will see the British miner pay a premium close to three times the price per share for Duluth. Antofagasta will pay C$0.45 per share in cash for all of…
MINNESOTA – Duluth Metals of Toronto has increased the metal content as well as the tonnage of the resources in four deposits at its Twin Metals project in the northeast part of the state.
VANCOUVER — Toronto-based Duluth Metals and 40% joint venture partner Antofagasta can claim to hold one of the world’s largest polymetallic sulphide deposits following a resource update on the Twin Metals project southeast of Ely,…
Indicated resources have more than doubled to 4.6 billion pounds of lb at McEwen Mining’s Los Azules project in Argentina, while inferred resources have jumped 4% to 10.8 billion lb of copper.
Panoro Minerals has over a dozen properties in Peru, but is putting its resources into exploring and developing two projects in the country’s southeastern corner.
Only two years ago CMJ profiled BARRICK GOLDs development projects (see CMJ June 2005), among them six new gold mi…