Base Metals Top Stories

Copper price: 120% premium for Brazil junior another bullish sign

Oz Minerals offers top dollar for Avanco which boasts top private equity players and Glencore as major shareholders.

Frik Els | March 27, 2018 | 4:26 pm

Nickel market eyes Philippines as mine review delayed yet again

The review by the Mining Industry Coordinating Council is now…

Bloomberg News | March 27, 2018 | 11:24 am

Rio Tinto fully out of coal sector with $2.25bn Kestrel mine sale

Company has agreed to sell its 80% stake in the…

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 27, 2018 | 7:14 am

Copper Mountain gains approval for $71m acquisition of Altona

The combination of the two companies will result in a…

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 27, 2018 | 5:55 am

Vedanta shuts protests-ridden copper smelter in India for 15 days

The maintenance activity, originally scheduled for April, comes amid media…

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 27, 2018 | 3:46 am

Mount Polley drilling returns up to 1.51 g/t Au, 1.03% Cu

The drilling was done in two phases on an underexplored area between the Springer and Cariboo mineralized zones near Williams Lake, BC.

Staff Writer | July 19, 2023 | 9:56 am

No more plundering: Can Africa take control in green mineral rush?

Governments have increasingly restricted or banned mineral exports in a bid to boost processing and retain more of the gains.

Reuters | July 19, 2023 | 8:11 am

Antofagasta cuts 2023 copper output forecast

The company lowered its full-year copper output forecast to 640,000-670,000 metric tons on persistent water shortages in Chile.

Reuters | July 19, 2023 | 8:00 am

Chairman of Chinese aluminum giant resigns after two years

The departure comes days after a unit of the company was reported by Bloomberg to have terminated contracts amid a government-led investigation into deals in the market.

Reuters | July 19, 2023 | 7:52 am

Marine animals flee Takuyo-Daigo seamount after Japan’s deep-sea mining test

Marine animals vacated the area where Japan extracted cobalt crusts from the top of deep-sea mountains to mine cobalt.

Staff Writer | July 19, 2023 | 6:06 am

Tata Group to build $5 billion gigafactory in the UK

Tata's first gigafactory outside of India will supply locally-made batteries to the company's its Jaguar Land Rover factories.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 19, 2023 | 3:53 am

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Copper price: 120% premium for Brazil junior another bullish sign

Nickel market eyes Philippines as mine review delayed yet again

Rio Tinto fully out of coal sector with $2.25bn Kestrel mine sale

Copper Mountain gains approval for $71m acquisition of Altona

Vedanta shuts protests-ridden copper smelter in India for 15 days

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Mount Polley drilling returns up to 1.51 g/t Au, 1.03% Cu

No more plundering: Can Africa take control in green mineral rush?

Antofagasta cuts 2023 copper output forecast

Chairman of Chinese aluminum giant resigns after two years

Marine animals flee Takuyo-Daigo seamount after Japan’s deep-sea mining test

Tata Group to build $5 billion gigafactory in the UK

Tanzania unlawfully expropriated Ntaka Hill nickel project, tribunal finds, awards miner $109m

Vale grows iron ore output by 6%, sales lag

Explorer Victor Vescovo says deep sea mining numbers don’t add up