Copper Top Stories

How Chile’s progressive new plan to mine lithium faces Indigenous hurdles

Chile’s millennial president, Gabriel Boric, promised to mine differently. He would turn the world’s largest copper producer and second largest lithium miner […]

Reuters | July 20, 2023 | 7:26 am

Freeport’s profit narrowly beats despite production, Indonesia woes

A slump in copper production and shipping delays in Indonesia…

Reuters | July 20, 2023 | 7:17 am

Antofagasta’s Arriagada, Collahuasi boss frontrunners for Codelco’s top job

Other names circulating include internal candidates Nicolás Rivera and Mauricio…

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 20, 2023 | 5:45 am

Energy transition faces metals gap unless investment rises, report finds

According to the Energy Transitions Commission, it will require production…

Reuters | July 19, 2023 | 5:13 pm

Self-healing metal? It’s not just the stuff of science fiction

Scientists on Wednesday described how pieces of pure platinum and…

Reuters | July 19, 2023 | 1:38 pm

Sandfire moves forward with Botswana copper mine expansion

The Australian firm plans to set up a major mining hub in the Kalahari Copper Belt.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 30, 2022 | 3:46 am

Southern Silver offers Cerro Las Minitas PEA with $349 million NPV, 60-month payback

The PEA puts the gross revenues over 15 years of mining at $3.7 billion.

Staff Writer | August 29, 2022 | 12:40 pm

Collective Mining drills 180.6 metres of 2.43 g/t gold equivalent at Apollo target in Colombia

Apollo is one of eight porphyry-related targets the company has found within a 3-km by 4-km cluster, and is part of the Guayabales project.

Northern Miner Staff | August 29, 2022 | 12:32 pm

Copper price back below $8,000 as hawkish Fed outweighs supply risk

“The recession fears are still there in the background,” said WisdomTree commodity strategist Nitesh Shah.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | August 29, 2022 | 9:07 am

Goldman says ‘buy commodities now, worry about recession later’

“Our economists view the risk of a recession outside Europe in the next 12 months as relatively low,” bank analysts said.

Bloomberg News | August 29, 2022 | 8:18 am

Gold mine plays key role in proving dark matter’s existence

Researchers working at the Stawell gold mine want to figure out whether dark matter actually exists.

Staff Writer | August 29, 2022 | 5:05 am

Former Rio Tinto Bougainville copper mine poses flood risk – report

Due to the urgent nature of the threat, a rapid risk assessment will begin led by global environmental firm Tetra Tech Coffey, which prepared the report.

Reuters | August 29, 2022 | 3:06 am

Chile warns area around sinkhole at high risk of further collapse

The Committee for Disaster Risk Management said the area is at high risk of further cracks or sinking near the Alcaparrosa mine.

Reuters | August 28, 2022 | 10:01 am

Commodity prices influence development of climate change mitigation technology in mining industry

A recent report shows that the development of climate change mitigation technology in the mining industry has been influenced by both the Paris Agreement and commodity price trends.

Staff Writer | August 28, 2022 | 6:49 am

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