Base Metals Top Stories

BC mining in 2016: New mines on track despite dire outlook

Hard decisions by some mining companies are required in 2016 if they are to avoid solvency problems, warns the Bank of Merrill Lynch.

Business In Vancouver - Nelson Bennett | January 5, 2016 | 3:35 am

Vancouver’s Oracle Mining in receivership

It is now halted from trading and its directors and…

Business In Vancouver - Nelson Bennett | January 5, 2016 | 12:33 am

China rings in 2016 with a stock market crash

Gold and oil benefited from the collapse, while base metals…

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 4, 2016 | 7:50 am

Veteran investor Rick Rule reveals a unique arbitrage opportunity

Rick praises innovative precious metals streams on base metal projects…

The Gold Report | January 4, 2016 | 3:21 am

B.C. mulls rescue as miners struggle

Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett rang in 2016 with…

Vancouver Sun | January 4, 2016 | 2:00 am

Li-ion battery recycling market to reach $31bn per year by 2040 — report

IDTechEx says that, in two decades, over 50% of the world's spent li-ion batteries will be recycled in China.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 1, 2021 | 6:06 am

BHP opens Australia’s first nickel sulphate plant

The world’s no. 1 miner has produced the first nickel sulphate crystals from its plant in Kwinana, outside Perth.

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 1, 2021 | 3:41 am

Peru minister partly blames MMG for Las Bambas unrest, sees solution in train line

Castillo's administration is also seeking to renegotiate the country's most important energy contract.

Reuters | September 30, 2021 | 6:08 pm

South32 buys additional stake in Mozambique aluminum smelter

Company has exercised its right to buy an additional 25% stake in Mozal Aluminium.

Reuters | September 30, 2021 | 2:36 pm

Ivanhoe’s Kamoa-Kakula concentrator beating design throughput target

The facility is exceeding designed throughput rates, treating 320,000 tonnes of ore in the month ending Sept. 20.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 30, 2021 | 10:06 am

Copper price down on Fed taper talk

A key focus of financial markets in the third quarter has been talks of policy tightening in the United States, which also boosted the dollar.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | September 30, 2021 | 8:53 am

Zambia’s Konkola liquidator arrested, calls money-laundering charges “baseless”

Milingo Lungu, has been charged with laundering more than $2 million.

Reuters | September 30, 2021 | 8:26 am

Chile copper output down in August as labor strikes dog production

The Andean nation's copper output fell to 466,928 tonnes in August.

Reuters | September 30, 2021 | 8:04 am

MMG resumes Las Bambas copper mine shipments

It had halted operations due to protests earlier this week nearby the mine, along Peru’s major copper transport corridor.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 30, 2021 | 7:01 am

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