Constantine’s underground exploration plan in Alaska green-lighted

Formerly called “The Disputed One,” Anglo American’s Los Bronces mine located northeast of Santiago, Chile, is living up to its name. The operation, which is expected to become the world's fifth-biggest copper mine, is at the heart of the ongoing legal dispute between the London-based global miner and Chile’s Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer.

A once-abandoned copper mine in New South Wales, Australia is being revitalized through a partnership with a Chinese company.

Due to the high Australian dollar and low molybdenum prices, Moly Mines says the Spinifex Ridge molybdenum/copper project is sub-economic and the company won't be developing it.

Prices of copper on the LME fell on Wednesday after poor housing data in the US raised concerns that demand for the metal could wane

The Atlantic profiles Christmas light recyclers, a job that moved to China when the environmental restrictions in the U.S. became too onerous.

Outotec has come up with two new roasting processes for eliminating impurities from copper and gold concentrates.

An unprecedented crackdown on corruption in India's mining industry, led by the Supreme Court and state-level agencies such as Karnataka's Lokayukta, coupled with rigorous enforcement of environmental norms is resulting in collateral damage to the economy, with plunging mining output leading to a fall in industrial production and GDP growth.

FLSmidth has been awarded a contract worth approximately USD 105m (approximately DKK 600m) from the Mongolian company, Mongolyn Alt (MAK) Group, to supply a greenfield copper concentrator for a mine some 500 kilometres from the capital city Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Betting that copper prices would rise, Barclays Capital traders lost tens of millions of dollars, sources say, the bank said the losses were not "big" and that there was no "abnormal" trade.