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[3 Jun '13]By Julie GordonMINA ZALDIVAR, Chile, May 30 (Reuters) - High in Chile's
bone-dry Atacama desert, mining engineer Enrique Miranda surveys
a metal struc
[30 May '13]LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) - Chilean copper miner Antofagasta
posted a 29 percent drop in first-quarter core profit
on Thursday, as lower prices for it
[16 May '13]By Clara Ferreira-MarquesLONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Mining companies, under pressure
to rein in spending and sell non-core assets, could hand back
more
[9 May '13]By Clara Ferreira-MarquesLONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Mining companies, under pressure
to rein in spending and sell non-core assets, could hand back
more
[9 May '13]LONDON, May 8 (Reuters) - Canada's Barrick Gold and
Chile's Antofagasta have given up hope of mining Reko
Diq, a disputed but promising copper and gol
[8 May '13]LONDON, May 8 (Reuters) - Tethyan Copper, a joint venture
between Canada's Barrick Gold and Chilean miner
Antofagasta, has given up hope of eventually
[8 May '13]LONDON, May 6 (Reuters) - The following FTSE 100 companies will go
ex-dividend on Wednesday, after which investors will no longer qualify for the
late
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