Copper $ 5.888 / lb -0.20%

Brent Crude Oil $ 67.67 / bbl 0.24%

Palladium $ 1735.5 / ozt 0.14%

Crude Oil $ 63.15 / bbl 0.25%

Natural Gas $ 3.19 / Btu -1.85%

Silver Futures $ 81.55 / ozt 4.42%

Aluminum Futures $ 3025.75 / ton -0.56%

Micro Gold Futures $ 5048.5 / ozt 0.94%

Micro Silver Futures $ 81.56 / ozt 4.54%

Platinum $ 2103.4 / ozt -0.59%

Gold Futures $ 5047.6 / ozt 0.88%

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Midnight Sun rises on Zambia-DRC copper district where superpowers converge

Canadian explorer Midnight Sun Mining (TSXV: MMA) just released an initial resource in the heart of the Zambian-Congo Copperbelt, an area that’s attracting Cold War-style financing competition to speed the record-price red metal to market. The junior reported Jan. 20 that its Kazhiba deposit, a small part of its Solwezi project’s Dome Region shallow copper system, holds 2.33 million indicated tonnes grading 1.41% copper...