Record year for Chilean copper
602714
Chile's copper mining industry saw record earnings of $14.2 bn in 2004, partly due to strong demand from China.
53124
Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton said Wednesday it had set or equalled record production figures for seven commodities in the six months to December.
475844
Mining giant BHP Billiton, which aims to buy rival Rio Tinto, reports record half-year production levels.
513712
VANCOUVER - Soaring metals prices powered Teck-Cominco to a record third-quarter profit, the company said Monday. Teck said it made $120 million in the quarter (62 cents a share), almost eight times larger
208773
Key dates in the life of Gen. Augusto Pinochet:
280288
Chile took a key step Wednesday toward confronting the grim legacy of abuses under the 1973-90 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, completing a lengthy report on torture and political imprisonment with testimonies from some 35,000 victims.
335820
By Ignacio Badal SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chilean President Ricardo Lagosreceived a chilling report on Wednesday from a governmentcommission that interviewed more than 30,000 victims tochronicle for the first time the systematic use of tortureduring Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship.
653196
In the state that produces the most chiles in the nation, a yearly festival pays tribute to the hot icon.
468892
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto posts a 42% jump in full year profits in 2006 to a record $7.4bn.
666659
Copper prices may recover this week from the biggest five-day drop since July 1999 as demand keeps growing in China, the world&#39;s largest user of the metal, a survey of traders and analysts showed.
618776
MELBOURNE - BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc. (BHP.AX: Quote, Profile, Research) (BLT.L: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s biggest miner, has approved a $990 million copper project in northern Chile and a $575
452917
POTOSI, Bolivia  - High silver prices are drawing a frenzy of miners to a colonial-era mine at Potosi in Bolivia, but the mine has become so dangerous that authorities fear the mine, part of a World Heritage Site, could collapse.
503188
Platinum hit another record high on Tuesday on a weaker dollar and a power crisis in South Africa which halted mining production, while silver touched a 27-year high to track firmness in gold.
144598
Inhabitants of the New World had chili peppers and the makings of taco chips 6,100 years ago, according to new research that examined the bowl-scrapings of people sprinkled throughout Central America and the Amazon basin.
593383
Havana, Dec 26 (Prensa Latina) An oil field discovery, the promising evolution of the nickel industry and benefits from strengthening ties with China and Venezuela, are among the good news given by President Fidel Castro to the Cuban people.
66275
Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc , fighting a takeover approach from rival BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc  and scurrying to capture more of the global commodities boom, churned out record tonnages of iron ore, copper and other industrial minerals in 2007.
77333
Chile's ex-military ruler Augusto Pinochet marks his 89th birthday amid news that a judge has frozen more of his assets.