Copper price blasts to 9-year high on demand optimism
Other industrial metals also jumped, with aluminum, nickel, tin and lead all hitting multi year highs.
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Rio Tinto still committed to Oyu Tolgoi – CEO
CEO Jakob Stausholm said the copper mine expansion would yield a “big win-win” for both the country and the miner.
Max Resource’s Cesar project grows to district-scale size
The copper-silver project in northeastern Colombia now covers over 2,500 square kilometres, with a cumulative 220-kilometre strike of prospective copper-silver mineralization.
Aftermath Silver kicks off work program at Chilean project
The new work program is designed to test the material outside of the high-grade structures that formed the mineral resource estimate.
Comstock soars on lithium battery recycler investment
Shares more than tripled after the mineral producer unveiled a $10.8 million deal for rights to a stake of as much as 64% stake in lithium battery recycling company Linico.
Manganese X confirms wide zones of mineralization at Battery Hill
Drill core assays from the Moody Hill area returned grades as high as 27.69% MnO.
Rio Tinto starts drilling at Janice Lake
RTEC drilling at Forum Energy Metals' 100% owned copper-silver project in Saskatchewan.
Gold price dealt ‘fatal blow’ by bond yield rally
Gold fell to its lowest in over two months as surging bond yields and a firmer US dollar continued to take a toll on the precious metal.
Nickel was king in EV battery capacity deployment in 2020
Adamas Intelligence says that over 60% of all passenger EV battery capacity deployed globally in 2020 was in the form of high-nickel cells.
Maverix Metals beats 2020 gold guidance
The Vancouver-based royalty firm saw a 20% y-o-y increase in attributable gold equivalent ounces sold worldwide.
Tungsten prices hit 12-year high as China tightens export controls
China supplies over 80% of the world’s tungsten.