Base Metals Top Stories

Declining silver price weighs on Hecla’s quarter

Net loss of $26.8 million, or $0.07 per share

Michael Allan McCrae | August 6, 2015 | 10:27 am

Massive gold reserves in Greece offer unique opportunity for Eldorado Gold

It's no secret that economic turmoil and extreme uncertainty in…

SNL Metals & Mining | August 6, 2015 | 8:18 am

INFOGRAPHIC: $60 trillion of world debt in one visualization

Today's graphic shows total global public debt and the debt-to-GDP…

Visual Capitalist | August 6, 2015 | 5:38 am

Barrick making plans for $900 an ounce gold price

World's number one gold miner announces program to sell more…

Frik Els | August 5, 2015 | 3:36 pm

Byproduct of metal price meltdown is a higher silver price

70% of silver is mined as a byproduct – gold,…

Frik Els | August 5, 2015 | 12:59 pm

LME launches six new contracts, including lithium and scrap aluminium

The LME had delayed the launch of its lithium hydroxide and the five other new contracts from an original date of June 14.

Reuters | July 19, 2021 | 9:08 am

Copper price falls amid covid-19 worries

China will continue to release copper, aluminum, and zinc from its state reserves in batches.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | July 19, 2021 | 8:52 am

China Moly’s Congo mine expansion project starts trial production

The expansion project of the TFM mine is expected to produce 88,500 tonnes of copper cathode and 7,280 tonnes of cobalt hydroxide.

Reuters | July 19, 2021 | 7:29 am

New York beating London as trading hub for booming cobalt market

Trading activity in CME’s contract has been gathering steam since its launch in December.

Bloomberg News | July 17, 2021 | 8:28 am

Dawn of a mining supercycle. Are you taking the fizz?

MINING.COM takes issue with a new white paper by Wood Mackenzie forecasting the varying impacts of the green energy transition on metals and mining demand.

Frik Els | July 16, 2021 | 5:18 pm

Floods stop work at Aurubis’s Stolberg copper products plant

Force majeure has been declared on deliveries from the plant which was hit by floods on Wednesday evening.

Reuters | July 16, 2021 | 1:00 pm

Small miners aim for European supply chain for EV independent from China

Growing demand for electric vehicles has spurred small-scale miners of the lithium, cobalt and rare earths.

Reuters | July 16, 2021 | 8:05 am

Bad weather may cost Rio Tinto its iron ore crown

Company reported a 12% fall in quarterly iron ore shipments on Friday after storms affected its West Australian operations.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | July 15, 2021 | 11:01 pm

Next mining supercycle will be different than any other — report

Fossil fuels won’t be in the vanguard and the winners will be the industrial metals needed to electrify society, Wood Mackenzie says.

MINING.com Editor | July 15, 2021 | 3:07 pm

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