Jiangxi Copper, China’s top copper producer, sees copper prices rising this year as supply remains tight and demand continues to increase.

Finnish headquartered metallurgical technology specialist Outotec has been awarded a contract to supply the copper effluent treatment at Codelco’s new MinaMinistro Hales […]

China's top copper producer Jiangxi Copper (0358.HK) (600362.SS) expects domestic copper prices to rise this year, mainly due to a supply squeeze, its chairman said on Saturday.

Newcrest today reported a staggering intersection of copper gold - 883 metres grading 2.15% copper and 2.23 grams/tonne gold at its Wafi-Golpu project. The project is part of the Morobe Joint Venture with Harmony Gold of South Africa and Wafi-Golpu is seen as the next project to develop after the now established Hidden Valley gold project in the Morobe region.

Strong fundamentals favor gold and silver long term-not just because of money printing by central banks, but also because demand from markets like China is increasing at an extraordinary rate. Rising crude oil prices, driven by the fast-changing global

The massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in southern Mongolia is now expected to produce an average of more than 3 million ounces of silver annually during its first 10 years of commercial production. In a news release Thursday Ivanhoe Mines CEO Robert Friedland said "Oyu Tolgoi will rank as a very substantial silver producer when commercial production begins in 2013."

Tasman Resources says the latest drilling on its Vulcan prospect near Olympic Dam shows evidence of “significant” iron oxide copper gold uranium […]

The latest reports out of China put consumer gold demand in the first 2 months of the current year at a phenomenal […]

According to U.S. embassy cables released on Wikileaks, Australia’s changes to foreign investment rules in 2009 were aimed at limiting Chinese investments […]

Kazakhmys, the world's 10th largest copper miner, was confident the long-term outlook for copper remained positive as a surge in prices drove its full-year profit higher. Kazakhmys said on Thursday its 2010 earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) rose 59.5 percent to $1.93 billion. According to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S estimates, the average EBITDA forecast stood at $1.86 billion.

As the Arab League gathers in Cairo to discuss Libya violence, gold and silver strong with the former close to its record […]

EMED Mining’s MD says the group expects to start production at its Spanish copper mine in the first half of next year.