South America

Miners’ waste problem expected to get worse

Lumina Copper faces charges, up to $55m fine for environmental violations in Chile

Weather affects lithium price in the market

AVZ reveals ‘remarkable’ lithium find

Quality soaring at Galan’s blue-chip lithium address

Iron ore continue to soar in trading

Brazil to ban all upstream tailings dams by 2021

Latam assets drop, Brazilian minister’s firing affects risk appetite

Brazil dam disaster death toll soars to 169

Copper cops exert efforts to arrest copper thieves in Chile

Brazil prohibits upstream mining dams after Vale’s latest disaster

Vale transfers 200 people from town near its Mar Azul mine

Trust in tailings? Vale dam disaster drove investors into action

Eight Vale employees detained in Brazil as part of dam collapse investigation

Kinross stock soars after reporting record production at Paracatu and Bald Mountain

Court downplays popular votes in Colombia

Brazil vow to reprivatise Vale

Filing says Brazil’s Vale resumes operations at Espírito Santo port terminal

Peru agency believes tailings spill did not come from Southern Copper mine

Galan praise Argentina lithium discovery