Chile's Escondida mine makes union a new offer
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Chile's Escondida presented  workers with a new contract offer on Sunday which, if approved  by workers, would end a strike that has lasted nearly two weeks  and halved production at the world's largest copper mine.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- London-listed metals and mining group BHP Billiton (BHP) (UK:BLT) overnight said it&#39;s approved a US $990 million Spence copper project in northern Chile with a designed capacity to produce 200,000 tonnes of copper cathode per annum.
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SYDNEY: BHP Billiton said it has approved a copper project in northern Chile costing 990 million US dollars and the expansion of its iron ore operations in Western Australia.
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The worldâs largest producer of iron ore, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce of Brazil, said it was in talks with a rival, Swiss-based Xstrata, about a merger.
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Teck Cominco  and the union representing workers at its Highland Valley copper mine have reached a tentative labor contract, the union said on Sunday, narrowly avoiding a strike at the mine in British Columbia.
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A consortium led by Chinaâs biggest gold mining company, the Zijin Mining Group, has made a $185.4 million bid for the British copper mining company Monterrico Metals in what could become Chinaâs first outright takeover of an overseas listed company. The acquisition would be the latest in a series of low-profile but substantial purchases of overseas mining assets by Chinese companies, part of the countryâs quest to diversify supplies of strategically important resources. Monterrico, which is based in London, holds rights to the still-undeveloped Rio Blanco copper and molybdenum deposits in northern Peru, which the company says could yield up to 25 millions tons of copper ore a year. Zijin holds a 45 percent share in the consortium, with a Chinese copper mining company, Tongling, taking 35 percent and Xiamen C& D, a trading and real estate conglomerate, holding 20 percent, Zijin said.
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NEW YORK/SYDNEY  - BHP Billiton Ltd. , the world's largest mining group, is considering a bid to rival a $28.7 billion offer for aluminum producer Alcan Inc. , and has hired investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. , sources familiar with the matter said.
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Rio Tinto   said it was to invest $1.1 billion expanding mines in Australia and the United States, as it looks to internal growth to fight off an unwanted approach from rival BHP Billiton.
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Anglo-Australian mining group BHP Billiton has said it had made an offer to workers at its Spence copper mine in Chile in a bid to avoid another damaging strike.
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BHP Billiton today announced the approval of the $US990 million Spence Copper Project in northern Chile. The project will have a designed capacity to produce 200,000 tonnes of copper cathode per annum and will have a mine life of 19 years.
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Copper producer Antofagasta makes a $400m offer for Australian business Equatorial Mining, sparking a bid battle.
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Workers at the world's largest  copper mine, Chile's Escondida, voted on Thursday to accept a  new contract deal and end a strike that sent international  copper prices on a 25-day rollercoaster ride.
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BHP Billiton, the world&#39;s biggest miner, approved a total of $1.5 billion to expand its copper and iron ore output amid increasing global metals demand led by China.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Workers at the world's largest   copper mine, Chile's Escondida, voted on Thursday to accept a   new contract deal and end a strike that sent international   copper prices on a 25-day rollercoaster ride.
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Rio Tintoâs recent offer of $38.1 billion for Alcan may be a sign that aluminum is no longer an estranged cousin in the mining industry.
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Freeport-McMoRan's merger bets on sustained copper prices.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - After 14 years in power,  Chile's ruling center-left coalition believes it needs to come  up with a sparkling new image or risk losing the 2005  presidential elections.