McEwen lines up copper partner as surging prices spur interest

The companies are committed to explore for mineral deposits first in the Asian country and then the rest of the world .

Congo's prime minister wants to immediately implement the new mining code without any concessions to industry demands that key provisions be amended.

The takeover offer, which expires next week, offers great exploration potential because Avanco owns a vast landholding in the copper and iron ore-rich Carajás region, second only to giant Vale.

Lithium, copper and nickel.

Up 8% at the open after intersects add more bulk to already massive Cascabel copper-gold project in north of South American country.

Third of seven ocean campaigns, Co-sponsored with Maersk, retrieves thousands of polymetallic nodules from top of ocean floor.

Up nearly 4% after union at world's only 1 million tonne copper mine demands owner BHP makes biggest bonus payout ever to Chilean mineworkers.

Every year, Freeport-McMoRan Inc. dumps tens of millions of tons of mining waste into the Ajkwa River system in Indonesia. The company has been doing it for decades, and is demanding the right to keep at it for decades to come.

The country's car industry currently employs about 840,000 people, with 210,000 of them working on powertrain production, the sub-sector set to be the worst hit.