Base Metals Top Stories

INFOGRAPHIC: The industrial internet, and how it’s revolutionizing mining

Learn in today's infographic how the "Industrial Internet", or the convergence of the global industrial sector with big data and the internet of things, is ushering in a new age of efficiency in mining.

Visual Capitalist | November 12, 2015 | 2:04 am

PearTree Securities’ Eric Lemieux enumerates Québec companies with cash and catalysts

Lemieux provides some perspective on several brownfield exploration projects he…

The Gold Report | November 12, 2015 | 12:51 am

Lonmin sees salvation, launches $407m rights issue at only 1 pence per share

The company has priced its $407 million share sale at…

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 9, 2015 | 4:17 am

Canadian mine photographer profiled by New York Times

"Open-pit mines are wounds we’ve inflicted, and the wonderment they…

Michael Allan McCrae | November 9, 2015 | 3:26 am

World’s biggest zinc producer exploring total exit from mining

Nyrstar is also considering to cut global zinc concentrate supply…

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 9, 2015 | 3:09 am

FX investors see metals as a way to get in on Biden’s trillions

Currency investors are already picking the winners of the infrastructure spending boom that the plan is likely to unleash.

Bloomberg News | April 23, 2021 | 8:39 am

Home: Shanghai aluminum soars as China’s production stalls

Shanghai aluminum prices last week hit their highest since 2010 as the Chinese market gears up for a seasonal demand peak.

Reuters | April 23, 2021 | 8:08 am

Foran Mining wants to develop world’s first carbon-neutral copper project

The miner will record emissions and purchase offsets for the carbon emitted from exploration activities over the past decade at the McIlvenna Bay deposit.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | April 23, 2021 | 6:11 am

McAra deposit mineral resource surpasses 1m pounds of cobalt

Owner Battery Mineral Resources said this is the first new cobalt-dominant mineral resource delineated in the Sudbury region in the past 50 years.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | April 23, 2021 | 6:06 am

Bureaucratic delays force layoffs at Taseko’s Gibraltar copper mine in BC

Almost a year has gone by since the company first informed the government of its plans to move a mine shovel from one pit to an older adjacent pit, and it still hasn’t gotten permission.

Nelson Bennett - Business in Vancouver | April 22, 2021 | 3:21 pm

Second environmental court ruling hits BHP’s Cerro Colorado mine

A Chilean court ordered BHP to cease drawing water from a riverbed near its facility and regulate nearby waste deposits following complaints from a nearby indigenous community.

Reuters | April 22, 2021 | 2:22 pm

Freeport beats copper estimates in relief to tight supplies

“The outlook for copper has never been better,” said Freeport CEO Richard Adkerson.

Bloomberg News | April 22, 2021 | 12:04 pm

Start-ups aim to change car battery recycling, clean up world’s most polluting industry

A handful of startups are trying to find a new way to recycle used car batteries, using water, chemicals and electricity to produce lead instead of the hazardous.

Reuters | April 22, 2021 | 11:58 am

Aluminum commands record premium in US amid economic recovery

The latest surge is driven by a jump in demand and shipping costs and a tariff holdover from the Trump administration.

Bloomberg News | April 22, 2021 | 10:02 am

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