Peru's exports reached 63.521 billion dollars (54.578 billion euros) by July, which represents a year-on-year increase of 33% and marks 27 consecutive months of growth.As detailed this Wednesday by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) in the official newspaper "El Peruano," this result is mainly explained by the...
The Senate of Brazil has given this Wednesday the definitive green light to a bill that launches a National Policy for Critical and Strategic Minerals (PNMCE), endowed with 7 billion reais (1.187 billion euros) in the form of investments and public aid, with which the country seeks to contest China's...
The Government of Colombia, led by the far-right Abelardo de la Espriella, has nullified this Wednesday, citing possible irregularities, a resolution from the previous Executive of Gustavo Petro that banned mining activities in the micro-basin of the La Baja creek, associated with the Santurbán massif, located between the departments of...
The mining activity represented 76.1% of the total exports of Peru until the month of April, which translated into operations worth 28.962 billion dollars (25.139 billion euros) and an annual increase of 60.6%, according to the data released this Tuesday by the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem).The shipments of...
The Swedish Government presented this Thursday a new roadmap to strengthen its mining sector with the aim of reducing dependence on China for the supply of raw materials, in an unstable geopolitical scenario in which access to these resources has become a "strategic" issue."Sweden and Europe can no longer depend...
China and Namibia have decided to take a qualitative leap in their bilateral ties with the creation of a China-Namibia community with a shared future for the new era. The announcement was made this Friday following the meeting held in Beijing between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Namibian President Netumbo...
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) considers that Peru is in a position to take advantage of the current international boom in critical minerals, including lithium and uranium. To achieve this, the organization suggests that the country strengthen spaces for dialogue and coordination between the State, the private sector, academia, and...
At least fifteen people have lost their lives in a collapse registered in a gold mine located in northern Sudan, according to the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company. The accident occurred in the town of Wadi Halfa, in the Northern state, and also left one injured.The general director of the company,...
The Peruvian State has accumulated 4,121 million soles (1,060 million euros) so far this year from fiscal transfers linked to mining activity, according to data released by the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem).Until April, the mining canon reached 2,212 million soles (568.9 million euros). To this figure were added...
Cimic, a subsidiary of the ACS group, has agreed to purchase the percentage it did not yet control in Thiess for 1,191 million Australian dollars (around 720 million euros at the current exchange rate), a payment that will be made on September 1, 2026, and with which it will regain...
Peru's mining sector registered a total of 282,520 direct jobs in April 2026, representing an increase of 0.2% compared to the previous month and an advance of 9.9% compared to the same month of the previous year, according to the Mining Statistical Bulletin of the Directorate General of Mining Promotion...
The National Service of Environmental Certification for Sustainable Investments (Senace) of Peru has communicated this Monday that it has given the green light to mining projects for a total of 36.4 billion dollars (31.8 billion euros) in the period between 2024 and May 2026.As detailed in the official bulletin "El...
The president of Guinea, Mamadi Doumbouya, has decreed the suspension of raw gold exports with the intention of favoring the treatment of the metal within the country and thus strengthening the Guinean economy.The announcement was made at a meeting held with industrial and artisanal gold producers, as well as with...
TSK Electrónica y Electricidad has announced the recent signing of several significant contracts in its Energy Transition and Digitalization divisions, as well as in the Handling and Mining area. These new projects will be developed in the United States and Israel.As TSK has communicated to the National Securities Market Commission...
The LATAM group, through its cargo subsidiary LATAM Cargo Chile, maintains that the recent direct air connection between Frankfurt Airport (Germany) and Andrés Sabella Airport in Antofagasta is notably improving the efficiency in the logistical supply of mining activity in northern Chile.According to a press release, the service operates once...
At least seven workers have lost their lives following the explosion registered in a coal mine located in the municipality of Sutatausa, in the Colombian department of Cundinamarca, in the center of the country, as confirmed by local authorities in a report released on Friday night."We regret to report that,...
The Popular Party has rejected in the Galician Parliament the BNG's initiative that called for modifying Galicia's mining law with the aim of "ordering the sector with guarantees" and ensuring that "if Galician wealth is extracted," Galicia is the "protagonist."The nationalist deputy Xosé Manuel Golpe, in charge of presenting the...
The newly appointed chairman of the board of directors of the Chilean state-owned mining company Codelco, Bernardo Fontaine Talavera, has announced that the company will change its roadmap to place profitability as the central focus, above the simple maximization of tons produced."Our mandate is not to produce for the sake...
The votes of the groups supporting the Asturian Executive, PSOE and Convocatoria-IU, along with that of the Mixed Group deputy Covadonga Tomé, have allowed this Thursday to reject in the Plenary Session of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias a proposal by Vox related to the mining sector.The...
The Community of Madrid has approved the extension of the exploitation period of the Tolsadeco mining concession, located between the districts of Vicálvaro and San Blas-Canillejas, after obtaining all the necessary environmental guarantees, a decision that will allow the creation of 1,120 jobs. Sources from the Ministry of Economy, Finance...
The spokesperson for Industry of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Patricia Iglesias, has censured that the Minister of Economy, María Jesús Lorenzana, announced in the last plenary session the return to the processing of "the most controversial mining megaprojects" without a prior sectoral plan and "behind the back" of the territory.In...
The Minister of Science, Industry and Employment, Borja Sánchez, explained this Tuesday in the General Board that his department already has a draft of the instruction that will define the Complementary Research Projects (PIC), in which the criteria that will govern their processing will be precisely established."The guidance that I...
The Association of Research, Extraction, Transformation, Mining-Metallurgical, Auxiliary and Service Companies (Aminer), a benchmark for metallic mining in Spain, has incorporated Minepro Solutions as a new associated company. It is a Spanish company based in Asturias, dedicated to mining and mineral processing, which strengthens the business fabric of the sector.Minepro...
The unstoppable expansion of digital technologies and electric mobility has unleashed a global struggle to secure dominance over the essential minerals for manufacturing devices such as mobile phones or electric vehicles. In this scenario of competition for raw materials, the European Union has turned its attention towards Spain, considered one...