Demand for thermal and metallurgical coal should rise to 7,432 million tonnes in 2021, from 7,243 million tonnes this year, according to the International Energy Agency.
Companies will supply copper concentrate at treatment and refining charges of $59.50 per tonne and 5.95 cents per lb in 2021, signing up at the benchmark rate miners have now managed to lower for six years in a row.
The Jersey-based miner is interested in a project in the northern section of the currently closed Connemara mine, previously owned by First Quantum Minerals.