Top copper miner’s output slump adds to worry on metal shortfall Codelco reported declines across all of its mines in September as ore grades fell an average of 5% in the first nine months of the year. Reuters | November 9, 2018 | 11:26 am
Cobalt prices could rally 30% by mid-2019 Glencore's suspension of Congo exports shows how cobalt production expansion plans can go awry. Frik Els | November 8, 2018 | 1:34 pm
Chile copper output hits 4.25m tonnes through September, up 7.3% Chile, the world's top copper exporter, produced 4.25 million tonnes of copper in the first nine months of 2018. Reuters | November 8, 2018 | 10:27 am
Indonesia’s Inalum sells $4B in bonds to fund Freeport purchase The deal came amid choppy global markets, rocked by trade concerns and slowing economic growth in Asia - including Indonesia. Reuters | November 8, 2018 | 10:05 am
Japan’s Sumitomo Metal cuts FY profit forecast on lower metal prices Sumitomo Metal cut its full-year forecast, blaming lower-than-expected metal prices amid the U.S.-Sino trade spat, and reduced nickel output. Reuters | November 8, 2018 | 9:32 am
Australia state to roll out new mine rehabilitation rules Queensland state is set to unveil proposed resource regulations that will require miners to pay into an "insurance fund" for the remediation of old mines. Reuters | November 8, 2018 | 9:21 am
Aston Bay buys Jack’s Fork Exploration and its Virginia project From now on, Aston Bay will own exclusive rights to the copper-lead-zinc-gold-silver Blue Ridge Project. MINING.COM Staff Writer | November 8, 2018 | 7:29 am
Go Cobalt to earn 100% interest in vanadium mine in Quebec Barachois is a sedimentary hosted vanadium-selenium-silver-lead-zinc prospect that covers 1,801 hectares. MINING.COM Staff Writer | November 8, 2018 | 7:00 am
Kutcho Copper extends mineralization at Main deposit The high-grade copper-zinc-gold-silver volcanogenic massive sulphide system is 100 km east of Dease Lake in northern B.C. Northern Miner Staff | November 7, 2018 | 12:54 pm
