Base Metals Top Stories

Explorer Aston Bay signs $40-million preliminary deal with BHP on copper asset

Tiny Aston Bay Holdings (BAY-V), a junior with a copper-zinc project in Nunavut, seized the market’s attention by announcing a preliminary joint-venture deal with the world’s largest mining company.

CEO.CA | January 31, 2016 | 2:30 pm

Teck Metals to plead guilty over pollution in Trail, B.C.

Teck Metals Ltd. is expected to be hit with substantial…

Globe and Mail | January 29, 2016 | 12:25 pm

Caterpillar sees no signs of mining improvement

Quoting levels "very low" and machines already sold are not…

Frik Els | January 28, 2016 | 1:43 pm

Anglo American shares rally on iron ore output hike, cost-cutting measures

The besieged miner plans to lower costs at its iron…

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 28, 2016 | 5:10 am

Barrick Gold Corp is back on top as Canada’s best-performing stock and the world’s most valuable gold company

Barrick Gold Corp. has surged to become Canada’s best-performing stock…

Financial Post | January 28, 2016 | 4:50 am

Zijin opens Serbia’s largest copper mine

The Cukaru Peki upper zone of the Timok copper and gold project is part of Serbia's only copper mining complex.

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 22, 2021 | 8:15 am

Shanghai aluminum at over 1-month low as coal prices drop

China’s thermal coal futures plunged and turned in their worst week in five months, following Beijing’s strongest intervention in years to boost supply and cool runaway prices.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | October 22, 2021 | 8:00 am

Copper price down on China’s move to cool coal market

On-warrant LME stocks, those not earmarked for delivery, have tumbled by over 90% since mid-August.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | October 22, 2021 | 7:49 am

London Metal Exchange has to restrain disorderly copper

The London copper contract has been sucked into a stocks vacuum after the amount of available metal in warehouse system sank to the lowest since 1974, writes Andy Home.

Reuters | October 22, 2021 | 7:13 am

Boliden profit misses forecasts hit by production disruptions

Boliden said costs had increased due to major planned maintenance shutdowns, higher energy prices and wage inflation.

Reuters | October 22, 2021 | 6:36 am

Codelco reaches union agreement with Salvador mine

Codelco said it had reached a 36-month agreement that will not include salary adjustments.

Reuters | October 21, 2021 | 3:13 pm

Top 10 cobalt operations outside of China and the DRC

There is currently a solid global project pipeline, due to the rise in cobalt prices and the expected demand boom amidst battery manufacturing projects, Fitch writes.

MINING.com Editor | October 21, 2021 | 12:46 pm

BHP studies potential for using nickel mine waste to capture carbon

Waste from Nickel West operations is high in magnesium oxide, which can pull carbon out of the air to create magnesium carbonate, a stable compound in the form of a salt.

Reuters | October 21, 2021 | 10:41 am

Goldshore hits gold in first holes of 100,000m program at Moss Lake in Ontario

The first hole intersected mineralization over 422m true width, which is an increase of 52% over the 2013 historical resource model in that area.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 21, 2021 | 9:54 am

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