Base Metals Top Stories

Glencore faces third Congo legal challenge this year

Congolese-American businessman and convicted fraudster Charles Brown claims he's owed $1 billion in compensation for a 19% stake he previously held in Mutanda Mining, and which Glencore allegedly sold in two fraudulent transactions, in 2007 and 2012.

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 8, 2018 | 3:49 am

LME says plans to launch about 15 contracts from January 2019

The exchange said in March that any launch of a…

Reuters | June 7, 2018 | 11:46 am

Copper price rallies to highest since January 2014

Labour negotiations in the copper mining industry still left to…

Frik Els | June 7, 2018 | 11:34 am

Thomson Reuters publishes GFMS Platinum Group Metals Survey 2018

Are the dark days for platinum set to last?

Thomson Reuters | June 7, 2018 | 10:40 am

Cupric Canyon to start construction of Botswana copper mine in October

Sparsely-populated Botswana is the world's top diamond producer by value.

Reuters | June 7, 2018 | 10:20 am

Canada risks more than $37 billion in clean tech as incentives in limbo

More than a year after Canada first announced incentives to jumpstart clean technology projects there is still no money flowing.

Reuters | September 18, 2023 | 5:40 am

Receivers look to sell Australia’s Avebury nickel mine by Christmas

KordaMentha plans to have sold the Avebury nickel mine in Tasmania by December.

Reuters | September 18, 2023 | 5:07 am

IRA, EGD and now the EU move on China EVs – governments are showering mining with money

When the EU closes its EV market to China, it would open up a direct route and likely premium pricing for lithium, nickel, cobalt miners now supplying China.

Frik Els | September 17, 2023 | 2:05 pm