Base Metals Top Stories

Canada, buoyed by trade deal, to push U.S. on metal tariffs

The agreement protects Canada's automotive industry from potentially devastating U.S. tariffs.

Reuters | October 1, 2018 | 5:44 pm

Changes to an existing provincial law propose a new Special…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 1, 2018 | 5:33 pm

No gas or balloons needed.

Michael McCrae | October 1, 2018 | 1:16 pm

Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co Ltd plans to produce 114,600…

Reuters | October 1, 2018 | 10:58 am

This compares to $86 per tonne in both 2018 and 2017.

Reuters | October 1, 2018 | 10:45 am

Support has also come from a report this week that South Korea’s Young Poong Corp. cut production at its Seokpo smelter.

Bloomberg News | March 7, 2024 | 2:40 pm

Dundee acquired the smelter in 2010 to secure a processing plant for the complex concentrate from the company’s Chelopech mine in Bulgaria.

Staff Writer | March 7, 2024 | 10:00 am

Rio's Gladstone operations include its Yarwun and Queensland alumina refineries and its Boyne aluminium smelter.

Reuters | March 7, 2024 | 8:43 am

Deep-sea mining could cost $500 billion in value destruction, study says

The report "How to lose half a trillion" says that mining the seafloor could cost the industry $30 to $132 billion in value destruction.

MINING.com Editor | March 7, 2024 | 3:00 am