Base Metals Top Stories

Big mining’s age of austerity far from over

But asset sales will slow says new report.

Frik Els | December 5, 2016 | 8:21 pm

Copper price: Warnings over US trade with China, Mexico

Moody's says base-metals will come under pressure in 2017 –…

Frik Els | December 4, 2016 | 8:12 pm

Hedge funds make $5 billion bet on rising copper price

Large scale speculators in copper futures lift bullish positioning to…

Frik Els | December 4, 2016 | 6:19 pm

Top 10 mines riding zinc price wave

Zinc is the best performing metal of 2016.

Vladimir Basov | December 4, 2016 | 5:03 pm

New $264m Zimbabwe platinum mine to last 34 years

Completing the $264-million mine will boost the platinum reserves of…

Andrew Topf | December 4, 2016 | 4:20 pm

Freeport expects copper leaching technology to go mainstream

Prodded by rising copper prices and demand, Freeport and others have developed new ways to extract the red metal from piles of waste rock stored at mine sites.

Reuters | May 17, 2022 | 8:47 am

Copper price rises on easing covid-19 restrictions in China

Shanghai set out plans on Monday for ending the covid-19 lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | May 17, 2022 | 8:26 am

Europe’s first homegrown battery plant begins shipments

Northvolt AB became the first European firm to start commercial shipments to a carmaker last week.

Bloomberg News | May 17, 2022 | 8:00 am

China, US are racing to make billions from mining the moon’s minerals

Unlike in the era of Sputnik and Apollo, the world’s top superpowers can’t even agree on basic principles to govern the next generation of space activity.

Bloomberg News | May 17, 2022 | 7:19 am