VANCOUVER – Luminex Resources has unveiled a maiden resource at its Camp deposit, part of its Condor project in southeast Ecuador, of […]

AUSTRALIA – Hatch, Anglo American, BHP, and Fortescue have formed a Green Hydrogen consortium as part of a move to evaluate using […]

Every mine and mill operator’s worst nightmare is the failure of a tailings dam. Vancouver’s Imperial Metals faced this catastrophe in 2014 […]

CHILE – BHP  has averted a strike at the world’s largest copper mine, Escondida. A deal has been struck between the operator […]

Recent events are conspiring to push up the price of copper significantly. Lack of new discoveries and labour action at the world’s […]

AUSTRALIA – Last week the board of BHP Billiton approved an expenditure of US$2.9 billion for the South Flank iron ore project […]

SASKATCHEWAN – BHP is considering the sale of a 25% interest in its Jansen potash project 140 km east of Saskatoon, according […]

CHILE – BHP of Melbourne, Australia, has committed US$2.46 billion to expand the Spence open pit, heap leach copper mine in the […]

BRAZIL – BHP Billiton of Australia has approved a total of US$250 million in financial support for the Samarco iron ore clean […]

This writer has a fondness for Canadian diamonds, as do many CMJ readers. The stones are beautiful, world famous and conflict free […]

USTRALIA – BHP Billiton and Hatch have entered into a collaborative technology development partnership, formed to accelerate the development and deployment of […]

Pyritic waste rock piles generate acid rock drainage, which damages the environment and gives headaches to mining companies. Different methods such as subaqueous deposition and perpetual treatment of...