In the absence of an organic law that regulates the right to prior consultation, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Energy and Mines issued a manual.

Chilean media reported that mine workers blocked the entrance road to the Rodomiro Tomic mine and completely stopped production.

Australia-based researchers trained three machine-learning models to automatically map road features in rural, generally remote and often forested areas.

In 2016, BHP had only 17.5% female workers globally and today employs 1,509 women at Escondida mine alone.