Argentina

Newly minted BHP CEO Brandon Craig faces a crowded in-tray as he takes mining's top job on July 1, from threatened iron ore strikes and ballooning costs to a potential uranium push and a febrile... 

Rio Tinto expects its lithium business to grow faster than its copper, iron-ore and other divisions as it works to triple production by 2028 for the electric vehicle and battery storage markets, an... 

TSX-listed AbraSilver Resources Corporation confirms in a definitive feasibility study (DFS) on the Diablillos silver/gold project its status as a world-class undeveloped deposit based on a... 

Orion Critical Mineral Consortium (Orion CMC), a minerals investment group backed by the US government, is in advanced discussions to establish three new public-private partnerships in Asia as it... 

Chinese miner Ganfeng Lithium and its Swiss partner Lithium Argentina are seeking a third investor for the Pozuelos-Pastos Grandes lithium project in northern Argentina, the president of Lithium... 

As Chile targets net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, its continued production of copper and lithium are key elements of the country’s energy transition, with copper regarded as a longer-term... 

South America is increasingly becoming one of the most strategically important mining regions for the future stability of global copper and lithium supply. Chile, Peru and Argentina sit at the... 

As critical minerals become increasingly central to global industrial strategy, a growing divergence is emerging between how major economies and leading South American mineral-producing nations are... 

A gold/silver mine in Santa Cruz province, southern Argentina, about 400 km south-west of Comodoro Rivadavia and about a two-hour drive south of Perito Moreno. 

The preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on TSX-V-listed Fredonia Mining’s El Dorado Monserrat project, in Argentina, remains on track for completion in August. The study is evaluating a range of... 

TSX- and NYSE-listed precious metals and copper developer McEwen has confirmed in a prefeasibility study (PFS) on the Grey Fox project its viability to become a major source of ore for the Fox... 

Optimisation is under way. 

Having confirmed a low-cost and low-risk development opportunity to produce 1.8-million ounces of gold over a 14-year mine life at the Hualilán project in Argentina, ASX-listed Challenger has... 

Toronto-based gold production, development, and exploration company Cerrado Gold's wholly owned subsidiary Minera Don Nicolas (MDN) has acquired additional concessions, known as Las Calandrias II,... 

JSE-listed packaging producer Nampak has reported a mixed performance for the six months ended March 31, with resilient growth in its beverage business offset by a sharp downturn in its diversified... 

McEwen Copper has appointed financial services provider Societe Generale to lead the structuring and arrangement of a senior debt package to fund construction. 

Western Australia-headquartered Galan Lithium has achieved first processed lithium chloride at its Hombre Muerto West (HMW) project, in Argentina. This marks the end of wet plant commissioning,... 

Canada and Germany’s State-owned energy firm SEFE said on Wednesday they had reached what Canada described as its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply deal with a European buyer, underscoring... 

Diversified metals miner Eramet has appointed Simon Henochsberg to succeed Abel Martins as group CFO and has announced the partial restart of mineral sands processing at its Grande Côte operation,...