Base Metals Top Stories

Palladium price surges to 22-month high

Years of underinvestment in top producer South Africa affecting supply.

Frik Els | January 20, 2017 | 1:59 pm

Sibanye $2.2bn acquisition of Stillwater passes antitrust conditions

Takeover would make of Sibanye Gold the world's third largest…

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 20, 2017 | 9:02 am

Chile injects $975 million into state-owned copper giant Codelco

Moves is expected to help the copper giant cope with…

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 20, 2017 | 5:06 am

Troubling contradictions in Trumponomics

Markets are expecting a Trump economic miracle with real GDP…

The Gold Report | January 19, 2017 | 4:25 pm

Curb your copper price enthusiasm – report

"The run-up in base metal prices, particularly after the US…

Frik Els | January 19, 2017 | 11:28 am

Congo nears deal with Israeli billionaire to recover assets

The DRC is in negotiations with Dan Gertler’s Fleurette Group, which controls mining and oil permits throughout the Central African country.

Bloomberg News | February 20, 2022 | 10:55 am

Global EV sales jumped in 2021, as did deployment of high nickel battery chemistries

Adamas Intelligence reports that 54% of battery capacity deployed onto roads globally in new plug-in electric vehicles was powered by high nickel cathode chemistries.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | February 18, 2022 | 6:06 am

Amex closes financing for exploration at Perron gold project in Quebec

The C$49.6 million bought-deal private placement is the largest financing in company history.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 17, 2022 | 10:47 am

LME warehousers slash capacity as metal stocks drain away

Exchange stocks have been draining away as pandemic demand recovery collides with disrupted supply chains across the base metals spectrum.

Reuters | February 17, 2022 | 9:54 am

Nickel price highest in 3 weeks as US talks of Russian invasion of Ukraine

US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that Moscow appears to be “moving toward an imminent invasion” of Ukraine.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | February 17, 2022 | 9:45 am

IGO gets Western Areas’ shareholder Wyloo nod for $790m bid

Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest-backed Wyloo Consolidated will vote its 9.8% stake in Western Areas in favor of IGO's bid.

Reuters | February 17, 2022 | 8:22 am

South32 profit soars on recovery in commodity prices

Underlying earnings for the half-year ended Dec. 31 came in at $1 billion, beating a consensus estimate of $987.5 million.

Reuters | February 16, 2022 | 3:32 pm

Newcrest first-half profit nearly halves on lower production, covid costs

The gold miner posted an underlying profit of $298 million for the six months ended Dec. 31.

Reuters | February 16, 2022 | 2:08 pm

RANKED: World’s top 10 copper mining projects – 2022

Copper is a metal vital to the green energy transition.

MINING.com Editor | February 16, 2022 | 11:46 am

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