Base Metals Top Stories

Teck Resources swings to loss after $1.7 billion charge

Earnings, however, beat analysts’ estimates as Canada’s largest diversified miner cut costs to deal with weak commodity prices.

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 22, 2015 | 3:08 am

Cleaner water and stronger aluminum drive clean TeQ’s future

Australia's Clean TeQ Holdings Limited, a long-time industry leader in…

The Gold Report | October 22, 2015 | 12:30 am

Canada’s Ivanhoe to start copper production at new DRC mine in 2018

The Vancouver-based miner estimates that Kamoa, discovered in 2007, holds…

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 21, 2015 | 5:11 am

Depleting Escondida drops BHP copper production

Copper output at the world's largest copper mine slips 14%…

Frik Els | October 20, 2015 | 4:54 pm

The $2 trillion mining value chain at a glance

All you need to know about mining and metals and…

Frik Els | October 19, 2015 | 11:46 pm

Reality check for copper price bulls as Chinese demand growth slows

Copper long speculators are at risk of a price pull-back due to a delayed pick up in Chinese demand in its traditionally strong industrial consumption season.

Reuters | April 9, 2021 | 7:42 am

Codelco takes Ecuador to arbitration over stalled joint project

Chile's copper giant has requested international arbitration with Ecuador and its state-miner over the Llurimagua project.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 9, 2021 | 7:06 am

FLSmidth joins responsible copper production framework

The Danish firm is now a partner at the Copper Mark Assurance Framework.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | April 9, 2021 | 6:06 am

Rio Tinto, Turquoise Hill strike funding deal for Oyu Tolgoi

The binding agreement ends a standoff between the companies over the copper-gold mine expansion.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 9, 2021 | 5:00 am

China’s CNGR to make nickel matte in Indonesia as battery demand grows

The project with Singapore-based Rigqueza International will produce 30,000 tonnes of nickel matte a year, CNGR said.

Reuters | April 8, 2021 | 2:30 pm

Value of top 50 mining companies surges $600 billion from covid lows

Despite gold's price slump, strong copper and iron ore prices lifted MINING.COM's ranking of the world's 50 most valuable miners to a new record high of $1.35 trillion.

MINING.com Editor | April 8, 2021 | 12:21 pm