Rio Tinto said it will provide interim debt funding of up to $400 million.

Last year, environmentalists and surrounding communities appealed a ruling from a lower court that tossed out a decision by a regulator that denied the company permits.

Fed Jerome Powell pledged that the US central bank would ratchet interest rates as high as needed to kill a surge in inflation.

China has already shipped out unusually large volumes of metals from aluminum, copper to zinc in March.

Investors should look at whether the junior companies they are interested in have enough cash in the bank, VRIC hears.

Prodded by rising copper prices and demand, Freeport and others have developed new ways to extract the red metal from piles of waste rock stored at mine sites.

Shanghai set out plans on Monday for ending the covid-19 lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks.