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Newmont Mining Corporation has been recognized for leading sustainability performance and as the most improved company in the mining sector – in the 2017 Sustainability Yearbook. The Yearbook is published by RobecoSAM, a sustainability investment firm that manages one...

Hecla Mining Company’s President and CEO, Phillips S. Baker, Jr., will participate in a panel discussion at the CIBC Institutional Investor Conference in Whistler, BC, on Friday, January 27, 2017, at 11:10 a.m. PT. An audiocast of the panel...

Codelco communicates that it initiates the search for expressions of interest to jointly develop lithium projects in Maricunga and Pedernales salt flats, located in the Atacama Region, in the north of Chile.              ...

Vale S.A. (Vale) informs that Samarco Mineração S.A (Samarco) and its shareholders, Vale and BHP Billiton Brasil Ltda (BHPB), have entered into two preliminary agreements with the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Brazil (Federal Prosecutors). The first agreement aims to...

BHP Billiton awarded Henry Muller the inaugural Technology and Innovation Award for his work in the 1980s that allowed Olympic Dam to become a commercially viable operation making four products copper, uranium, gold and silver.                             Mr Muller, a former...

Newmont Mining Corporation has appointed experienced miner Andrew Woodley to lead the Company’s North America business beginning on January 2, 2017.                                                                            Mr. Woodley succeeds Tom Kerr who retired from Newmont after 32 years of distinguished service to the Company.“Andrew...

PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel  announces the signing of a 13-year EUR 37,8 million credit facility agreement with Commerzbank AG under Euler Hermes cover.                                                                     The proceeds will be used to finance 85% of the contract value for the construction of...