Full production at strike-hit Escondida mine to resume next week: company
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Mining group BHP Billiton said that full production at its strike-hit Escondida copper mine in Chile would resume next week after it reached a pay deal with workers.
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Phelps Dodge Corp., one of the world&#39;s largest copper producers, said Monday its board approved an $850 million expansion to triple production at the Cerro Verde mine in Peru, with the company ceding some of its stake in the mine in the process.
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General Motors Corp.&#39;s European factories are expected to resume scheduled production Thursday after workers at a German factory ended a wildcat strike to protest planned job cuts.
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Oil companies trying to overcome storm damage in the Gulf of Mexico have put 200,000 more barrels of daily production back on line in the past week, a federal agency reported Monday.
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By Teresa Sharp  A meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday on the next phase of FMC Corp.'s arsenic cleanup project.  FMC Corp. plans to replace "shallow soils" on 13 residential properties near its plant.
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A strike at the world's largest privately-owned copper mine, La Escondida in Chile,  ends.
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U.S. car maker Ford Motor  Co  will resume full production at its Russian plant on  Monday after a four-week strike that threatened to curtail a  planned increase in output.
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NASA&#39;s Michoud plant in eastern New Orleans will slowly resume construction of external fuel tanks for the space shuttle in the new year, a plant executive said Tuesday, marking the first time
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Disruption on the West Coast Mainline looks set to continue with normal services not expected to resume until Thursday.
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TV producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as Wednesday now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old strike
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Another bore hole will be drilled in the Utah mine where six miners were trapped nearly three weeks ago, a federal mining official said Sunday afternoon.
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By Jason Webb BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia may recover itslong-lost status as a significant gold producer thanks toimproved security and a rebound in prices, which have allowed aCanadian company to reopen a mine troubled by rebels.
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WASHINGTON -- BP PLC plans to ask federal regulators this week to resume operation of a segment of its pipeline so further tests can be made in hopes of restoring full production on Alaska's North Slope, a company executive told a Senate hearing Tuesday.
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The government ordered striking oil workers back on the job Monday night and the Norwegian Shipowners Association withdrew its threat to lock out more oil and gas rig workers, preventing any possible cutbacks in the country's oil production.
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BP  on Friday said it will  keep the western half of its Prudhoe Bay oil field online,  enabling the company to get the field up to half its prior  output despite pipeline corrosion.
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PRUDHOE BAY, Alaska, Aug. 31 -- BP officials are increasingly optimistic that Prudhoe Bay oil production may return to normal levels earlier than they initially expected. A portion of the pipeline idled by corrosion concerns may be useable at least temporarily, they said, while other questionable...
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Union leaders at Chile's   Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, expect more than   2,000 workers to approve a new contract deal from the company   on Thursday, ending a strike in its 25th day.