The Nordic country, a major oil and gas exporter, is considering whether to open its offshore areas to deep-sea mining.

Prices of zinc, aluminum have fallen from their peaks by over 15% in 2022 from a year earlier.

KSM project is the biggest new mine proposal in resource-rich BC, where there are currently eight new mines or mine expansions in the queue worth a total investment of $4.9 billion.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed an order on Thursday withdrawing 225,504 acres in the Superior National Forest from leasing.

The underground operation provided 3,000 t/d of ore to the processing plant, which used sulphide flotation recovery.

The new inferred resource estimate raised tonnage by 62% compared with figures from 2021.

The miner spearheaded the first pilot passport leveraging the ReSource platform in collaboration with its Kamoto Copper subsidiary LG Energy Solution and Tesla.

The two partners have only just ended a long-running tussle over the underground expansion of the mine.