The main union at BHP Billiton’s Escondida copper mine, the world’s largest, told Reuters on Tuesday that negotiations mediated by the Chilean government with the company have failed and that workers will go on strike […]
Chilean lithium and fertilizer giant SQM said on Friday it had agreed to pay more than $30 million in penalties to the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve a probe […]
CHARLOTTE— Albemarle Corporation, a premier specialty chemicals company and leader in the production of lithium and lithium derivatives, announced today that it has agreed, effective December 30, 2016, to amend its lithium production rights agreement with the […]
Santiago – Ambassadors and representatives of nations that signed the Ottawa Convention called on Monday in Santiago for a quicker clearing of minefields, so that by 2025 the world will be completely free of landmines. […]
TOKYO, Nov 8 (Agencies) – Japan’s JX Holdings Inc expects to miss the copper concentrate output target at its Caserones mine in Chile in the fiscal year ending next March due to slow output in […]
SANTIAGO, Nov 4 – Chilean business executives do not foresee a marked improvement in the performance of their companies or the overall economy until at least the end of 2017, a central bank survey showed […]
SANTIAGO – Global miner Anglo American said Thursday that it would make a fresh round of 140 job cuts in its Chilean copper operations, as a weak copper price continues to drag on the industry. […]
Chile’s Codelco, the world’s top copper miner, may soon change its focus from cost reductions to output cuts, as the state-owned miner faces what its chief executive called the “worst crisis ever” since created in […]
Commodities downturns aren’t completely bad for producers. One upside — lulls in the market often bring operating and capital costs down, as competition for labor, supplies and services abates. And that appears to be exactly […]
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