Australian copper developer Hot Chili has secured priority status from the Chilean government for two of its key projects. The company’s flagship Costa Fuego copper/gold project, along with the ...

China has struck a defiant stance in response to American concerns about Beijing’s efforts to expand its influence in the ...

"This shows how crucial China-Chile cooperation in mining has become ... remain a cornerstone of the country's economy.

SANTIAGO - Hundreds of Chinese mining suppliers attended Expomin 2025, the largest mining expo in Latin America, held in the Chilean capital, showcasing their competitive products and services, along ...

“Currently, we are A) not able to keep up with the demand, and B) the ability of manufacturing these critical minerals is concentrated in one single country or two,” Birol said in a speech ...

Chile’s competition regulator has approved a joint venture between state-owned copper giant Codelco and SQM (NYSE: SQM), the world’s second-largest lithium producer, to boost lithium output ...

Any country can allow deep-sea mining in its own territorial waters, roughly up to 200 nautical miles from shore, and companies are already lining up to mine U.S. waters. Impossible Metals earlier ...

Rio2 Ltd is targeting early 2026 for first gold pour at its Fenix Gold heap leach project in Chile. Construction is 19 per cent complete and on budget at one of the Americas’ biggest undeveloped oxide ...

Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for minerals, saying it could irreparably harm marine ecosystems and ignores an ...

Chile's competition authority, Fiscalía Nacional Económica (FNE), has approved a joint venture between state-run copper major ...

There is currently no commercial-scale deep-sea mining anywhere in the world. But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential source of metals like nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper ...