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Moves are afoot on Bougainville to set up organisations to represent landowners in negotiations on the possible re-opening of the Rio-Tinto owned Panguna Copper Mine. The mine was closed in 1989 after it sparked a bloody civil war and its re-opening is still opposed by some members the rebel Me’ekamui group . Bougainville President John [...]

LUSAKA – Brazilian firm Vale plans to invest $400-million in Zambia’s Konkola North copper project, expected to start producing copper by 2013, executive director Eduardo Ledsham said on Thursday. Ledsham said while visiting Zambia, Africa’s largest copper producer, that the Konkola North project, Vale’s joint-venture project with African Rainbow Minerals was the first of other projects [...]

SAN FRANCISCO – Fluor Corp has won a $1,3-billion contract for work on a new copper mine in central Chile, adding to a growing backlog of mining projects for the largest publicly traded US engineering company. Fluor said on Tuesday it would handle the engineering and construction on the new Caserones copper mine for Minera [...]

CHENGDU, China, June 30  – An Afghanistan copper mine joint venture between Metallurgical Corp of China (MCC) and Jiangxi Copper is expected to start production of copper concentrates in 2013, an MCC executive said on Wednesday. This is two year’s later than the end-2011 startup date stated in September by MCC president Shen Heting, but [...]

An explosion killed three copper miners in central Kazakhstan on Sunday, mine owner Kazakhmys said. Kazakhmys is the world’s eighth-largest copper miner and its shares trade on the London Stock Exchange. A company spokeswoman, reading from a news statement, said a fourth miner had also been injured in the explosion, which occurred at about 1000 [...]

SINGAPORE, June 3 – Shanghai and London copper futures rose 1 percent on Thursday, buoyed by a sharp rally in U.S. equity markets and positive auto and pending homes sales data. Surprisingly strong U.S. housing data for April drove optimism about the economy, boosting stocks and driving up oil prices. The stock rally — a [...]

* Miners defy court ruling and blockade copper mine * Grupo Mexico quiet on next move over strike * Strike divides town with history of labor strife By Mica Rosenberg CANANEA, Mexico, Feb 18  - Dozens of miners are blockading Mexico’s biggest copper mine day and night, dimming hopes that owner Grupo Mexico can quickly [...]

* Miners defy court ruling and blockade copper mine * Grupo Mexico quiet on next move over strike * Strike divides town with history of labor strife By Mica Rosenberg CANANEA, Mexico, Feb 18  - Dozens of miners are blockading Mexico’s biggest copper mine day and night, dimming hopes that owner Grupo Mexico can quickly [...]

TORONTO  – Underground mining employees at Lundin Mining’s Neves-Corvo copper mine, in Portugal, have begun a programme of industrial action because of a dispute over wages, the company reported on Tuesday. The workers are holding two-hour strikes at the beginning of each shift, after demands for a 17% increase in their base salary was rejected [...]

Chilean environmental authorities have approved Barrick Gold’s $38m proposal to expand the production capacity of its Zaldivar copper mine in the northern Antofagasta region. The company’s environmental impact study has been approved, which now paves the way to increase extraction by 20% to 260,000t per day compared to the earlier 220,000t a day at the [...]

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