Minera

( "Minera" or "the Company") (AIM: MIRL) (BVLAC: MIRL), the South American mining company, is pleased to announce its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2009.

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The fund's largest single holding is Sociedad Quimica & Minera de Chile SA, a Chilean company that produces plant nutrients and iodine as well as lithium.

Oil, Gold...Rare Earths? Liam Pleven 2011

Mexican company Minera Frisco SAB is hedging production as it seeks to bring previously unprofitable silver projects online, while miners such as Sweden's Boliden AB and U.S. Silver Corp. also set hedging deals for 2011.

Silver Nears 31-Year High Matt Whittaker 2011

Minera Frisco, recently spun off by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's conglomerate Grupo Carso, has a 70-million ounce silver-hedging program booked out to 2013 that it announced in January in a stock-exchange filing.

Silver Nears 31-Year High Matt Whittaker 2011

Other hedging programs were added by Golden Star Resources Ltd., Industrias Peñoles, Great Basin Gold Ltd. and Minera Frisco, while Kinross Gold Corp. accounted for 25% of gross dehedging in the quarter, with a three-ton reduction in its net hedge position.

More Miners Hedge, Expect Gold's Rise to End Francesca Freeman 2011

Late Tuesday, Minera Yanacocha SRL, the joint venture that owns the project and South America's biggest gold producer, disclosed that it was suspending the $4.8 billion Conga project following days of increasingly violent protests that have left some 20 people injured as a result of clashes between demonstrators and police.

Newmont-Project Suspension May Raise Risks for Peru Ryan Dube 2011

Mr. Luna, who has forecast that Peru would maintain its No. 1 producer position over the next few years, said the South American country's output growth should be supported by higher production at the Antamina SRL mine and at Volcan Compania Minera SAA, currently Peru's largest silver miner.

Peru, Mexico Vie For Top Silver Spot Sophie Kevany 2011

The free-market capitalist company who ran the mine, Empresa Minera San Esteban, was an out-of-control, anti-union, government-regulation defying safety nightmare who allowed its workers to become trapped as par for the course of its worker mistreatment.

WSJ Credits 'Capitalism' For Saving The Miners, After It Endangered Them The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Another weight on copper prices was the end of a labor strike against Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde in Peru.

EU Debt Fears Push Copper to 2011 Low Matt Day 2011

Union workers at Peruvian copper producer Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde, which is majority controlled by Freeport, said late Friday that they would hold a two-day strike beginning Wednesday in an effort to gain a salary increase.

Growth Worries Push Copper Lower Matt Day 2011