Glencore ups expectations for FY trading, lowers nickel, coal

After a near 5% drop on Wednesday, news that a strike had been averted at the world's largest copper mine put a cap on hopes of a recovery for the bellwether metal.

Called off strike at world's largest copper mine adds to pressure on copper price now down nearly 20% in little over two months.

Chilean copper producer Antofagasta said first-half core earnings fell 16.2 percent from a year earlier.

Chile, known for its vast copper deposits, is joining the search for cobalt amid soaring demand for a metal that’s mostly mined in the politically risky Democratic Republic of Congo, which holds 60% of the world's reserves.

The main union at Chile's Caserones copper mine said on Monday that both sides had agreed to extend government mediation of labor talks until Thursday.

Like the Soviet Union in the 1970s, China is coming to the end of a long labor-force boom and hoping that an orgy of investment will keep the old magic going while stabilizing its fraying frontiers.

Chile's copper industry on Monday braced for the announcement of a potential strike at the world's biggest copper mine, Escondida.

Copper bears could get caught wrong-footed as a strike looms at the world’s biggest mine.

Two new studies reveal where ancient Egyptians got the red metal from.