On Wednesday, hopes that an escalation of the trade war between the US and China can been avoided (or at least postponed) sparked a massive rally in mining stocks – already buoyed by climbing metals prices.
News ID: 3695 Publish Date : 2019/02/22
The US Army Corps of Engineers has released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), as required under the National Environmental Policy Act, for Northern Dynasty’s (TSX: NDM; NYSE : NAK) Alaska Pebble project, one of the richest copper-gold deposits ever discovered.
News ID: 3694 Publish Date : 2019/02/21
Canada’s Lundin Gold (TSX:LUG), the company that plans to kick off production at its Fruta del Norte gold project in Ecuador later this year, will boost exploration in the country thanks to a C$40.5 million (about $30.8m) financing secured this week.
News ID: 3693 Publish Date : 2019/02/21
Following its 2017 notice of force majeure that was ratified in January 2018, Vancouver- based LiCo Energy Metals (TSXV: LIC) announced this week that it has decided to completely drop the Purickuta project in northern Chile.
News ID: 3677 Publish Date : 2019/02/20
Iran has produced more than 200,000 tons of copper cathode in the first 10 months of the current local calendar year (started on March 21, 2018), indicating a 61% growth compared with corresponding period in last year.
News ID: 3644 Publish Date : 2019/02/16
The price of copper declined for a fifth day in a row on Thursday despite trade data showing Chinese imports of the orange metal growing at a record-setting pace.
News ID: 3630 Publish Date : 2019/02/15
The world’s largest new copper mine rumbled to a start this week in the Panamanian jungle, poised to supply a global market that’s tipping into deficit and gives First Quantum Minerals Ltd. a chance to prove its $10 billion investment was worth all the trouble.
News ID: 3629 Publish Date : 2019/02/15
OSLO, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Norway's government approved on Thursday the building of a copper mine near Europe's northernmost point despite years of opposition from indigenous Sami herders and fishermen.
News ID: 3623 Publish Date : 2019/02/14
The autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville has rejected controversial changes to its mining law, said to be aimed at letting a new company extract the island’s riches.
News ID: 3610 Publish Date : 2019/02/12
Billionaire Robert Friedland, founder and executive chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN), said Wednesday his copper project with Chinese partners, Zijin Mining Group and Crystal River Global, in the Democratic Republic of Congo “definitely” has the potential to become the world’s second-largest red metal mine.
News ID: 3580 Publish Date : 2019/02/06
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. has offered to buy the Zambian government’s 20 percent stake in Africa’s biggest copper mine for as much as $700 million, according to two people familiar with the transaction.
News ID: 3568 Publish Date : 2019/02/05
Irish researchers found a way to treat osteomyelitis, a particularly difficult-to-treat bone infection, using copper.
News ID: 3551 Publish Date : 2019/02/04
January’s copper price rally came to a screeching halt on Friday after a key gauge showed Chinese factory output shrinking at the fastest pace in almost three years.
News ID: 3528 Publish Date : 2019/02/02
Global miner Anglo American laid off 180 workers at its flagship Los Bronces mine in central Chile, part of a plan to boost productivity at the deposit that has raised the ire of some of its unionized workers.
News ID: 3512 Publish Date : 2019/01/31
Chilean copper miner Antofagasta Plc is evaluating building a new concentrator plant at its Centinela mine that would cost around $3 billion, the chief executive of the company was quoted telling a local daily on Sunday.
News ID: 3454 Publish Date : 2019/01/28
A paper published in the journal Geology predicts that scientists are close to proving that microbes have control over the precipitation of metals in near-surface environments.
News ID: 3452 Publish Date : 2019/01/28
Following the development of a copper-graphene nanocomposite that adds 3% graphene to pure copper, Codelco Tech, a subsidiary of the world’s top copper producer, and engineering innovation firm Ennomotive chose three people to lead the creation of applications where the new material can be practically used.
News ID: 3451 Publish Date : 2019/01/28
Imperial Metals has published its fourth quarter and year-end numbers for its operations. For the full year, the company produced 75.3 million lb. of copper and 79,056 oz. of gold.
News ID: 3397 Publish Date : 2019/01/25
Freeport McMoRan Inc shares slid 9 percent on Thursday after the world's second-largest copper miner posted lower-than-expected quarterly profit and forecast a drop in 2019 production.
News ID: 3396 Publish Date : 2019/01/25
Once seen as a laggard in the global mining industry, U.S. copper deposits have quietly drawn more than $1.1 billion in investments from small and large miners alike as Tesla and other electric carmakers scramble for more of the red metal.
News ID: 3384 Publish Date : 2019/01/24
