Base Metals Top Stories

China’s demand drives long-term gains for aluminium

BMI Research raised the 2018 aluminium price forecast to $2,000/tonne, from a previous forecast of $1,900/tonne.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 26, 2017 | 7:52 pm

Major Guinea bauxite mine to start producing in 2019

Alliance Mining Commodities will invest $670 million over the first…

Reuters | October 26, 2017 | 12:27 pm

Teck Resources shares fall on weaker own coal price outlook

Teck expects larger proportion of coal sales in fourth quarter…

Reuters | October 26, 2017 | 10:24 am

Quantum computing turning to copper

In order to store new quantum data that can be…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 25, 2017 | 6:34 pm

Copper prices fall

Among other geopolitical developments, the drop is attributable to investors…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 25, 2017 | 5:39 pm

Sandfire moves forward with Botswana copper mine expansion

The Australian firm plans to set up a major mining hub in the Kalahari Copper Belt.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 30, 2022 | 3:46 am

Southern Silver offers Cerro Las Minitas PEA with $349 million NPV, 60-month payback

The PEA puts the gross revenues over 15 years of mining at $3.7 billion.

Staff Writer | August 29, 2022 | 12:40 pm

Collective Mining drills 180.6 metres of 2.43 g/t gold equivalent at Apollo target in Colombia

Apollo is one of eight porphyry-related targets the company has found within a 3-km by 4-km cluster, and is part of the Guayabales project.

Northern Miner Staff | August 29, 2022 | 12:32 pm

Copper price back below $8,000 as hawkish Fed outweighs supply risk

“The recession fears are still there in the background,” said WisdomTree commodity strategist Nitesh Shah.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | August 29, 2022 | 9:07 am

Goldman says ‘buy commodities now, worry about recession later’

“Our economists view the risk of a recession outside Europe in the next 12 months as relatively low,” bank analysts said.

Bloomberg News | August 29, 2022 | 8:18 am

Gold mine plays key role in proving dark matter’s existence

Researchers working at the Stawell gold mine want to figure out whether dark matter actually exists.

Staff Writer | August 29, 2022 | 5:05 am

Former Rio Tinto Bougainville copper mine poses flood risk – report

Due to the urgent nature of the threat, a rapid risk assessment will begin led by global environmental firm Tetra Tech Coffey, which prepared the report.

Reuters | August 29, 2022 | 3:06 am

Chile warns area around sinkhole at high risk of further collapse

The Committee for Disaster Risk Management said the area is at high risk of further cracks or sinking near the Alcaparrosa mine.

Reuters | August 28, 2022 | 10:01 am

Commodity prices influence development of climate change mitigation technology in mining industry

A recent report shows that the development of climate change mitigation technology in the mining industry has been influenced by both the Paris Agreement and commodity price trends.

Staff Writer | August 28, 2022 | 6:49 am

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