Taseko’s Florence Copper granted aquifer protection permit

Fresh fall brings monthly copper price decline to more than 10% as gauge of Chinese manufacturing shows rate of job losses near post-financial crisis record.

Higher gold prices will push miners to restart or speed up development of projects, leading a fresh wave of mergers and acquisitions in the country, according to BMI Research.

A sharp reversal in metals and minerals prices during May see top mining companies shed billions in market value.

By far the best performing base metal of last year, lead demand has run into serious headwinds this year – lithium's just one of them.

Significant brown and greenfield projects through 2020 nearly outnumber the next ten countries on the list.

The company will seek a court order to stop the strike, which is already affecting output.

Elevated below rail technology has the potential to open up significant mining assets long considered stranded.

The transaction will result in a consolidated landholding of over 1,500km2 between and along a strike from the Oyu Tolgoi and Tsagaan Suvarga copper mines.

BHP wants find a way to up output for the industrial metal from its Olympic Dam by 40% even before a proposed and long-awaited mega-expansion of the operation takes place.