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Copper output was 82,042 tonnes, a jump of 46% from the same quarter a year earlier.

The expansion will help boost mill throughput to 1.8 million tonnes annually in the Boliden area of Sweden.

First production at Quellaveco project in Peru, which has the capacity to generate 300,000 tonnes of copper annually in its first 10 years of operation, is expected in 2022.

Cobalt is on the US government’s list of 35 critical elements that are essential to the country’s economy and national security.

Metal recovery from recycling of lithium-ion batteries varies from 10% for copper to 80% for cobalt.

The GSR robot had been operating at a depth of 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.

This was the strongest quarter in its 15-year history as a copper producer.

The state's top court ordered the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to hold a new hearing regarding permits for a tailings dam facility at the proposed mine.

The plant, on the island of Obi, is one of a number of high-pressure acid leach projects in top nickel miner Indonesia.