Colquiri mine boosts production, looks for investment
Production by Empresa Minera Colquiri (EMC), the Bolivian tin-zinc mine nationalised in June last year, has been running ahead of target recently, prompting calls for worker bonuses and extra investment. BN Americas reported that recent tin production has been 319...Huanuni mill expansion well advanced
Bolivia’s state tin company Empresa Minera Huanuni (EMH) will triple its tin concentrate production in 2014 to 3,000 tonnes a month thanks to the construction of a new mill which is expected to be completed by the end of the year, said mining and metals minister...Bolivian mine production increasing
Official statistics from Bolivia’s ministry of mines and metallurgy show increased production of its three main mining revenue earners – silver, zinc and tin – in the first quarter of this year. Production of tin-in-concentrates rose by 4.1% year-on-year to...Huanuni strike over
Operations at Bolivia’s biggest tin mine, the state-run Huanuni operation, were back to normal by Saturday 25 May after the end of an 18-day strike that cost the mine at least $8-million, Reuters reported. Miners had stopped work as part of a general strike...Strike hits Huanuni mine
Workers on strike at Bolivia’s biggest tin mine, the state-run Huanuni operation, have cost the mine US$5 million in lost output since they walked off the job on May 6, Reuters reported, quoting a government statement released last Friday. Miners at the...Comibol production tops 10,000 tonnes
Tin production by Bolivia’s state-controlled mines in 2012 exceeded 10,000 tonnes for the first time in recent years. Official figures from the ministry of mines and metallurgy show that output of tin-in-concentrates by Comibol rose by 5.8% to 10,247 tonnes last...Comibol production falling
Bolivia’s state mining organisation Comibol has seen its tin production fall in the first three quarters of 2012, despite the nationalization of the former Glencore-controlled Colquiri mine in June. According to official mines ministry statistics,...Colquiri mine re-opens
More than 600 mineworkers went back to work at the Colquiri zinc-tin mining complex in Bolivia on 8 October after a lengthy conflict between co-operative and salaried workers over access to mining areas. Work at the mine restarted early Monday despite new unrest over...Operations to resume at Colquiri
Production is due to resume imminently at the Colquiri tin-zinc mine in Bolivia, following a month long stoppage as a result of a dispute between company employees and co-operatives about access to part of the mine. The mine, which produced 2,200 tonnes of...
