Chile – Spotlight Mining

Chile and Colombia join forces on the “Hydrogen Race” in Latin America

Featured Image: The Minister of Energy of Colombia, Diego Mesa, met in Santiago de Chile with his counterpart, Juan Carlos Jobet, in order to unify efforts for the incorporation of hydrogen as a clean energy source in Latin America (Source: MinEnergía) Diego Mesa, the Colombian Minister of Energy, met with his counterpart, Juan Carlos Jobet, […]

The Rise of Small Mines as Copper Surges to 7-year High

Featured Image: Luis Cortes, an artisanal miner at a mill in a small copper and gold processing plant at the “Inca de Oro” (Inca gold) miners association near Copiapo city, north of Santiago, Chile, December 14, 2015 (Source: Reuters) Copper reached a new 2020 high and is currently up to 1.45% to $ 3.481 per […]

Explore 2020 Conference

Featured Image: Chile Explore Group Last week I attended the Explore 2020 conference e-hosted by the Chile Explore Group. The 4-day event features talks on porphyry deposit geology and exploration, geometallurgy, industry trends and the impacts of COVID-19, drilling, geochemistry, discovery stories, machine learning, and an investor’s day project showcase. The diversity of topics and […]

Driven by the mining industry, Chile’s Exports record biggest increase in 30 months

Featured Image: Chuquicamata mine, Chile (Photo: Bruna Fiscuk) Between January and September 2020, the Chilean mining sector exports to China accounted for 77.9% of the total exportations to the latter, an increase of 17.9% compared to the same period last year [1]. This trend persisted during October 2020, with an increase of 12.9% in Chile’s […]

The Silver Slam

Mountain Boy Minerals, New Pacific Metals and Excellon Resources go head to head in our ‘King of the ring’ junior mining pitch-battle. See more at www.spotlightmiing.com/register

Silver… The Next Break Out Metal?

Featured image: Stockpiles of gold/silver ore at the Vangold Mining El Pinguico project in Mexico A special feature from Tim Strong – Kangari Consulting Many of you will have been watching the gold price slowly climb with interest in the past few months, but have you also been looking into silver? I was […]

Tales from the Covid Bunker: Day 11

Featured image: the dangers are real! From the Stewart Museum in British Columbia! End of the World Jukebox: I have selected my own apocalyptic tune for today’s jukebox (apologies to those who I’ve queuejumped!). If you liked Michael Jackson, you’ll love Easy Star All Star’s ‘Thrillah’. Ello ello there Monday Bunker friends! Firstly, a […]