Its sale process with Citi and Standard Chartered is the most advanced, with potential buyers currently working on first-round bids.

Chinese refined metal imports have been trending lower since the start of the year and continued doing so in April.

The six-year investment blueprint includes a $2.3bn expansion to existing smelting capacity in Sonora and $815m for major new electricity lines for the Baja California peninsula.

The Brazil-focused gold miner has found unexplained cash withdrawals over the past six years totalling $200,000.

Add sulfuric acid to the list of challenges facing copper miners as the world clamors for more of the wiring metal.

According to Fitch, automakers with operations inside the EU have already started to invest in more sustainable extraction techniques, placing pressure on lithium producers.

China's commodity exchanges moved to raise trading limits and margin requirements for some iron ore contracts and reinstated fees on steel.

GoGold completed a preliminary economic assessment in January 2021 for Los Ricos South outlining both pit-constrained and out-of-pit resources.