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Over the coming years, Fitch forecasts high copper prices on the back of a bullish demand outlook as the economics of copper mining projects will become increasingly attractive to investors.

After a brutal second quarter, investors in the world’s 50 biggest mining companies are in full retreat as metal prices slump and uncertainty grips the sector.     

Demands for higher revenues from companies, tougher environmental rules and law changes have deepened risks across Latin America, index shows.

Long-delayed $1 billion plant to supply its largest operations in northern Chile.

Less activity detected in Sudbury, information shows

Global copper smelting activity declined in June, hit by a stoppage in top producer Chile, data from satellite surveillance of metal processing plants showed on Monday. Chilean state-owned Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, said on June 8 that it stopped its Ventanas smelter and refinery to carry out maintenance. The move in Chile along ...

Further protests by state copper workers possibe in Valparaiso Province, Chile, in coming days following June 17 gatherings.

Argentina’s black market peso slumped

The smelter is an outdated facility that has suffered repeated episodes of industrial pollution, one of the chemicals causing the deteriorating health of the inhabitants of Quintero and Puchuncaví

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile's finance minister, Mario Marcel, on Friday introduced a tax reform bill that increases copper mining royalties on companies...