May 27, 2018 Trump metals tariffs make Granite City great again, but at what cost? The United States Steel Corp is re-hiring or recruiting around 500 workers as it readies for production in mid-June at a blast furnace it idled in 2015.
May 27, 2018 Scientists one step closer to producing more efficient lithium-ion batteries They deposited copper on the ion-bombarded graphite.
May 25, 2018 Vancouver miner expanding in under-explored area of Atlantic Canada According to Labrador Gold, the Florence Lake belt is significantly underexplored for gold compared to greenstone belts elsewhere in the world.
May 25, 2018 Vedanta sticks with plan to expand Indian smelter despite deadly protests A company executive says Vedanta is not looking to set up plant elsewhere.
May 25, 2018 Copper king’s gender push rings hollow with all-male board Codelco just achieved a new, less enviable mantle -- the only major mining company with an all-male board and senior management team.
May 25, 2018 Chile’s Codelco profits up slightly despite rising costs Codelco chief executive Nelson Pizarro said a strong copper price in early 2018 had offset the impacts of rising production costs.
May 25, 2018 Chile’s Piñera taps businessman Benavides as Codelco chairman Benavides had previously led Falabella, one of Latin America's largest retailers with operations spanning department stores, supermarkets, malls and more.
May 25, 2018 Sanctioned tycoon Deripaska resigns as director of his firm Rusal Deripaska is now actively preparing the next step: reducing his stake in En+, the group which controls Rusal.
May 25, 2018 Trump “victories” on trade are anything but As the year has progressed, the underbrush has gotten thornier, Trump's progress on trade has slowed, and now it has likely stopped altogether.
May 25, 2018 Distraction or disaster? Freeport’s giant Indonesian mine haunted by audit report As follow-up to the audit, the environment minister issued two decrees that gave Freeport six months to overhaul management of its mine waste at Grasberg.
Zimbabwe scraps gold royalty hike, sets higher threshold for windfall tax A royalty rate of 5% would continue to apply for gold prices between $1,200 and $5,000 per ounce, according to the revised budget bill. December 17, 2025 | 07:13 am
