Copper Top Stories

Zambia expects to find new Mopani investor by year-end

Country's mining investment arm ZCCM-IH agreed to buy Glencore's majority stake in Mopani, taking on $1.5 billion in debt.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | January 20, 2021 | 9:39 am

China’s imports of Australian copper ore plunged to zero

China's imports of copper concentrate from Australia dried up completely…

Reuters | January 20, 2021 | 8:47 am

Antofagasta’s Los Pelambres expansion to cost an extra $400m

The project's cost is now pegged at $1.7 billion.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 20, 2021 | 3:49 am

Miners now saviours in green transition

The whole system has to be rebuilt, and that is…

Nelson Bennett - Business in Vancouver | January 19, 2021 | 11:02 am

SolGold CEO to retire after shareholder pressure

Resignation comes a month after Nick Mather was handed a…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | January 19, 2021 | 9:35 am

Top 15 copper mines worth $103bn less than a week ago

The value of reserves at the world's largest mines drop after copper price takes another hit.

Frik Els | November 18, 2015 | 4:56 pm

Teck Resources to axe 1,000 jobs, lowers dividend

With the announced cuts the diversified miner brings the total redundancies over the past 18 months to about 2,000.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 18, 2015 | 2:02 am

The collapse of commodities in one simple chart

Year to date gold is one of the better performers, but rhodium comes off worst.

Visual Capitalist | November 18, 2015 | 1:37 am

Copper price hits fresh six year low as Paris attacks continue to weigh in

The industrial metal, often viewed as a barometer of global economic growth, fell to its lowest level since 2009.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 17, 2015 | 9:54 am

Brazil mine accident puts tailings ponds safety back in the hot spot

Until early November, the failure at the Canadian Mount Polley copper mine had been the worst such breach in recent years.

Business In Vancouver - Nelson Bennett | November 17, 2015 | 6:27 am

Soros called the bottom in Barrick Gold’s stock

By selling his $20 million stake before a 20% surge in the value of the world's number one gold mining company.

Frik Els | November 16, 2015 | 4:09 pm

Vale: ‘Several years’ to recover from Brazil mine disaster

Mine waste has oozed 440 kilometres downstream and now covers two states.

Frik Els | November 16, 2015 | 1:52 pm

Caterpillar: Supercycle China isn’t coming back

Sales of excavators expected in China for entire 2015 is fewer than the total in March 2011 alone.

Frik Els | November 16, 2015 | 12:30 pm

Mining in Europe began more than 4,000 years ago, study reveals

Mining in the Alps dates back much further than previously thought — in the Austrian region of Montafon since the Bronze Age.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 16, 2015 | 4:15 am

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