The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative granted Rio Tinto a provisional responsible aluminium production certification for ISAL.

Deputies in Chile’s lower house gave their general backing to a constitutional reform that would impose a flat 3% royalty on the production of copper and lithium to finance environmental and social programs.

The global nickel market recorded a supply-demand surplus of 108,000 tonnes last year and is on track to record another 45,000-tonne surplus this year.

The global copper market should see a surplus of 79,000 tonnes in 2021 and of 109,000 tonnes in 2022, according to the International Copper Study Group.

Overall construction of the Kamoa-Kakula project's first phase 3.8-Mtpa concentrator plant is 98% complete.

Antam's nickel ore output stood at 2.64 million wet metric tonnes (WMT) in the first quarter, up from 629,000 WMT in the same period in 2020.

MSC accounts for about 7% of global supplies estimated at around 330,000 tonnes last year.

Socialist Pedro Castillo said he would, if elected, review contracts with foreign miners.