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- WORLD MARKETS The FTSE 100 closed 2.9 per cent lower - down 184.9 points at 6,191.6 - for its biggest one-day fall since mid-March, as investors dumped overheated mining stocks. Antofagasta, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Xstrata, Vedanta Resources, Kazakhmys, Lonmin and ENRC lost between 4.5 and...
- Research articles 2008-05-21
- London
- WORLD MARKETS The FTSE 100 fell 0.5 per cent as growth concerns hit commodity shares, but beaten-down banks recovered earlier losses. The index declined 32.9 to 6,050.7, after earlier falling 2.2 per cent. BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Eurasian Natural Resources, Xstrata, Antofagasta and Lonmin were down...
- Research articles 2008-04-25
- London
- WORLD MARKETS Investors dived for cover after bleak jobs data in the US deepened recession fears in the world's biggest economy. The FTSE 100 closed down 66.5, or 1.2 per cent, at 5,699.9. The weaker economic growth prospects meant mining stocks dominated the fallers board. BHP Billiton shed...
- Research articles 2008-03-08
- London
- WORLD MARKETS The FTSE 100 fell 0.7 per cent to 5,888.5 as miners weighed, but Lloyds TSB rose on higher dividends and lifted smaller rival Alliance & Leicester. Miners were the biggest drag, tracking weaker base metal prices. BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Vedanta Resources and Antofagasta...
- Research articles 2008-02-23
- WORLD MARKETS
- London The FTSE 100 gained 0.5 per cent, boosted by Standard Life - up 6.5 per cent - and the banks. Copper miner Antofagasta shed 6 per cent as copper prices dropped nearly 1 per cent, while Anglo American fell 4.5 per cent. Takeover target Rio Tinto rose...
- Research articles 2007-11-13
- BHP Billiton Inaugurates Spence Copper Operations
- BHP Billiton CEO Chip Goodyear officially opened the company's new Spence copper mine in the Antofagasta region of northern Chile on March 25, 2007. The $1-billion, open-pit, solvent extraction/ electrowinning (SX/EW) project is scheduled to reach its design capacity of 200,000 mt/y of copper cathodes during the third quarter of...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- War of words intensifies.
- Byline: Mark Fraser Feb 24, 2006 (Gold & Minerals Gazette - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Skafell announced in mid 2005 that it was making a takeover bid for Tethyan Copper. ...
- Research articles 2006-02-24
- WORLD MARKETS: Europe
- Stocks racked up their third straight weekly decline as falling metal and oil prices hit mining and energy shares. Total and lost nearly 1 per cent and Royal Dutch Shell shed 2 per cent, while the miners Antofagasta, Anglo American and BHP Billiton also slipped. But the farm chemicals maker...
- Research articles 2005-10-22
- World markets: London
- Strong mining stocks bolstered the FTSE 100 and Rentokil surged 10 per cent after Gerry Robinson's investment company said it was considering a bid. The miners Xstrata, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Antofagasta all rose 2-3 per cent, but the publisher Pearson was among a minority of fallers. The blue-chip...
- Research articles 2005-08-23
- WORLD MARKETS: London
- The FTSE 100 Rose to its best close since early 2002 as the oil titan Shell and the drug maker AstraZeneca " two of the index's heavyweights " rose sharply, spurred by broker upgrades after profit rises. Miners BHP Billiton and Antofagasta added further momentum as copper hit fresh highs....
- Research articles 2005-07-30
- WORLD MARKETS: London
- Miners shot up, boosted by strong Chinese industrial data and record copper prices, while oil shares bounced, powering the FTSE 100 to close up 25.5. The steel maker Corus rose 5.3 per cent and the miners BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Antofagasta also gained, as did the oil giant BP,...
- Research articles 2005-06-17
- Chile: Tecsa wins Escondida contract.
- Chile, Nov 23, 2004 (El Diario/SABI via COMTEX) Escondida, the Chilean mining company which is owned by the Anglo-Australian mining group BHP Billiton, will invest US22.5mil in the purchase of concrete for the expansion of its copper sulphide leaching plant located 170km southeast of...
- Research articles 2004-11-23
- Fourteen bidders for the Las Bambas mine project.
- Peru, Mar 24, 2004 (El Comercio/SABI via COMTEX) The Peruvian Pro Inversion Comision de Promocion de la Inversion government agency has announced that there are 14 companies competing for the contract for the Las Bambas copper mining project in Cotabambas. Amongst the contenders are...
- Research articles 2004-03-24
- Escondida to invest US$150mil in new seawater desalination plant.
- Chile, Feb 18, 2004 (El Diario/SABI via COMTEX) Escondida, the Chilean mining company which is owned by the Anglo-Australian mining group BHP Billiton, is negotiating with French, Spanish and US consortia specializing the construction of seawater desalination plants a contract for the construction of...
- Research articles 2004-02-19
- Luksic considers copper production cutback.
- Chile, Mar 28, 2003 (El Mercurio/SABI via COMTEX) Antofagasta Minerals, the Chilean mining company, which is owned by the Luksic group, is considering following the steps of Codelco and BHP Billiton and cutback its copper production in an attempt to raise international copper prices....
- Research articles 2003-03-28
- Chile: Codelco and BHP Billiton to invest US$50mil in new project.
- Chile, Jul 19, 2001 Mining company Alliance Copper, comprised of Codelco and BHP Billiton, will develop this year a US$50mil project in Antofagasta, II Region. The project consists of the construction of a bioleaching plant to dissolve copper concentrates. However, it still depends on...
- Research articles 2001-07-26
Additional Resources
- Offers for Disputada de las Condes are due December 20.
- Chile, Dec 12, 2001 Next December 20 is the deadline to submit tender offers for mining company Disputada de las Condes' assets. Antofagasta Plc., owned by the Luksic group, is interested in obtaining the El Soldado and Los Bronces mines and the Chagres smelting...
- Research articles 2001-12-17
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