Latin America

Canadian Arctic readies for world’s largest diamond mine openingSituated almost 300 kilometres east of Yellowknife and southeast of the now closed Snap Lake diamond mine, Gahcho Kué will soon begin operations. (Image courtesy of Mountain Province Diamonds) Only days...

Gearing up againRob Pease and Scott Shellhaas are the recipients of the AMEBC's E.A. Scholz Award for excellence in mine development for their work in advancing the Mount Milligan copper-gold project. The Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia Awards...

A long shotRyan HanleyAmid a tempestuous year for the U.S. dollar gold price, gold has quietly moved up about 6% in Canadian dollar terms, squarely placing the focus on gold producers with Canadian operations that generate cash flow, says...

CORAL GABLES, Fla.–Coalview Ltd., LLC (“Coalview”), America's leading fully integrated coal technology and fine coal recovery company providing technology and environmental solutions for mining property owners, celebrates its first year anniversary of commissioning the Coalview Centralia fine coal recovery...

Giant mine pit ‘swallowing’ 400-year-old Peruvian townMine pit. Aerial | Wikimedia Commons. The Peruvian city of Cerro de Pasco, perched high up in the Andes, is about to sink into the deeps of a half-century-old, open-pit zinc and lead...

Struggling Argentina expects US$14 billion in mining exportsThe new Argentinian government is promising to end a series of capital controls that have been propping up the peso – a move that would benefit mining. Reuters reported on Sunday that...

Carajás 2009 NASA satellite photo via Wikimedia CommonsThe price of iron ore continued to slide on Friday after top producer Vale indicated its flagship expansion project will come in under and budget and on time. On Friday the benchmark...