Base Metals Top Stories

Electric cars to reshape copper and oil demand

EVs could demand enough copper, other metals to dwarf oil market fallout: BHP

Oilprice.com | November 6, 2016 | 2:04 pm

Canadian Gov’t loans $2M to Newfoundland copper-gold mine

Funding will help English junior miner Rambler to increase production…

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 4, 2016 | 8:00 am

South32 scoops up Peabody’s Metropolitan coal mine in $200m deal

The deal includes a 17% interest in the Port Kembla…

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 4, 2016 | 4:38 am

CAT and Trimble to strengthen mining technology collaboration

As part of the deal, CAT is expected to become…

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 4, 2016 | 4:00 am

Luxembourg shoots for the stars, invests $28 million in Planetary Resources

The funding, which includes direct investment and grants, aims to…

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 3, 2016 | 11:00 pm

Atalaya acquires 51% interest in Rio Narcea Nickel, 20 permits in Spain

In a €2.5-million deal with Grupo Sacyr, Atalaya Mining has become a major player in the Ossa-Morena Metallogenic Belt.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 28, 2021 | 10:25 am

CNGR to buy nickel, cobalt from Xiamen Xiangyu

Chinese battery materials producer said it would buy over a five-year period as part of a broad strategic cooperation agreement.

Reuters | December 28, 2021 | 10:21 am

Philippines ends open-pit mining ban to reinvigorate industry

The Philippines has lifted a four-year-old ban on open-pit mining for copper, gold, silver and complex ores.

Reuters | December 28, 2021 | 9:09 am

Zijin starts production at giant Tibet copper mine

Qulong copper mine in Tibet adds a new source of supply to the market for next year.

Reuters | December 27, 2021 | 11:35 am

Indonesia president launches $2.7 billion China-backed ferronickel plant

The plant will be able to process 13 million tonnes of nickel ore annually.

Reuters | December 27, 2021 | 8:34 am

Misstep could reignite blockade against Las Bambas copper mine in Peru

The president of the Fighting Committee for the Mining Corridor said that if the government proposal was not reasonable, a new blockade would be launched against Las Bambas.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 26, 2021 | 12:31 pm

Researchers link cobalt mining in the DRC to violence, substance abuse, food-water insecurity

An interdisciplinary group of researchers is calling for more data on how emerging technologies affect human health and livelihoods.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | December 26, 2021 | 10:17 am

Russia’s largest new copper deposit to be developed under UN Global Compact guidelines

Udokan Copper, owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov's holding firm USM, has joined the UN Global Compact.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 26, 2021 | 8:25 am

Codelco requests second arbitration against Ecuador over copper project

The Llurimagua project has been the subject of commercial tensions since November 2020.

Reuters | December 24, 2021 | 1:03 pm

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