Mexico's economy minister met with Canadian mining companies, as well as the Canadian ambassador to the country, to discuss a recently passed mining reform, the ministry said Wednesday.
Global copper producers are converging in Chile this week for their largest gathering since 2019, with talks expected to center on the industry's growing M&A wave amid surging demand and tight supply for the metal anchoring the green energy transition.
Peru expects to produce 2.8 million tonnes of copper in 2023, Minister of Energy and Mines Oscar Vera said in a news conference Monday, representing an almost-15% jump from last year.
Hong Kong-listed miner MMG Ltd said on Thursday it would be unable to continue production at its Las Bambas copper mine in Peru, after failing to reach an agreement with the Peruvian community blocking a transport road used by the mine. (Reporting by Arundhati Dutta in Bengaluru.
A rural community in Peru will lift its blockade of the country's largest copper mine Antamina on Wednesday after protests forced miners to suspend operations, the Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines said in a tweet.