Codelco, the world’s biggest copper producer, said it reached a new wage agreement with a group of workers at its largest mine, averting a strike.
A union representing about 530 workers at the Chuquicamata copper mine in northern Chile voted Wednesday to accept a wage offer after Santiago-based Codelco reduced the length of the contract, union [...]

Nickel futures fell 3 percent at one point on the London Metal Exchange on Thursday and the metal ended lower as a possible strike at Xstrata’s Sudbury operations was prevented.
Three-months futures traded as low as $35,900 per ton, down $1,200 from its previous closing price, before narrowing losses to $36,850 at the close.
The Anglo-Swiss mining [...]

Shanghai copper futures fell 1.4 percent on Friday, under pressure from weaker London futures and rising international exchange stockpiles.
The most active April contract was down 750 yuan at 52,380 yuan ($6,751) a tonne at the close on Friday, and copper for delivery in three months on the London Metal Exchange was down $10 at $5,590 [...]

Copper gained for a second day in London on concern that a labor dispute at a mine in Chile, the world’s largest producer of the metal used in pipes and wires, may disrupt supply.
A union at the Cerro Colorado copper mine in Chile voted yesterday to strike as part of wage negotiations with BHP Billiton [...]

Copper gained for a second day in London on speculation that a labor dispute at a mine in Chile, the world’s largest producer of the metal, may disrupt supply.
A union at the Cerro Colorado copper mine voted yesterday to strike as part of wage negotiations with BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s biggest mining company. Supply [...]

A union at BHP Billiton Plc, the world’s biggest mining company, said the latest wage offer from management at a Chilean copper mine is too low.
BHP today offered a union at its Cerro Colorado copper mine in Chile a wage increase of 2 percentage points above inflation, below the union’s request for a 7 [...]

BHP Billiton management and Cerro Colorado officials said this week that they don’t anticipate a strike at the Chilean copper mine.
A union leader told Reuters Tuesday that he expects to see a final contract offer on January 23 or shortly after that date. The only Cerro Colorado union represents 535 workers of a total workforce [...]

Workers at Chile’s Cerro Colorado copper mine, owned by global miner BHP Billiton, expect to receive a final wage and contract offer from the company next week after talks that saw more progress in some areas than in others.
A union director also told Reuters the 556-member union would vote on the offer on or shortly [...]

Bellhaven Ventures Inc. is pleased to confirm the presence of molybdenum in addition to previously-announced copper and gold mineralization at its Cerro Chorcha porphyry copper deposit in western Panama. Cerro Chorcha, a 242 km(2) concession block located 40 km from the Cerro Colorado porphyry copper deposit, is held by Cuprum Resources, a wholly-owned subsidiary of [...]