Copper price crashes through $4.00, down 7%Massive selloff in industrial metals wipes billions off mining stocks – Freeport down 14%, Rio Tinto 11% for the week.Frik Els | March 4, 2021 | 11:31 am
Battery grade lithium prices in China surge 68%"Three years of falling lithium prices failed to incentivise sufficient…MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 4, 2021 | 9:44 am
Gold price slump led to $4.6bn monthly loss in ETFsGlobal ETFs have retraced the last six months of overall…MINING.com Editor | March 4, 2021 | 9:16 am
Global copper smelting edges lower in February due to Chinese holiday The decline in China was partially offset by gains in Europe and North America. Reuters | March 4, 2021 | 2:09 am
Resource nationalism surge spells rough times for miners Resource nationalism has been on the rise over the past year, but Verisk Maplecroft believes the worst is yet to come for miners as governments try to claw back the financial losses of the pandemic. Cecilia Jamasmie | March 4, 2021 | 1:00 am
Price queries soar after halt of open outcry trading, LME says The 144-year-old exchange published data for the first time about the number of challenges to provisional prices at the close of trade. Reuters | March 3, 2021 | 1:28 pm
Rare earth, uranium miners benefit from EV mania and dash of ESG Uranium sector supply/demand balance is the tightest we’ve seen since pre-Fukushima, analyst says. Bloomberg News | March 3, 2021 | 9:06 am
Aluminum price surges to 9-year high on Chinese supply concerns Investors were jittery ahead of China’s annual meeting of parliament, where the country will announce goals for 2021. MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 3, 2021 | 8:53 am
Gold price touches 9-month low, pressured by firm yields Gold is expected to struggle until the Fed curbs higher yields, one analyst says. MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 3, 2021 | 8:52 am
Golden Predator to acquire Viva Gold, build ‘premier junior gold producer’ This transaction would bring together Golden Predator’s past-producing Brewery Creek mine with Viva’s Tonopah gold project in Nevada. Canadian Mining Journal Staff | March 3, 2021 | 8:43 am
Gold price to decline on cyclical recovery, higher yields – report Fitch is revising down its 2021 gold price forecast, to an average of $1,780/oz from $1,850/oz previously. MINING.com Editor | March 2, 2021 | 2:48 pm
Copper to stay tight on long path to new supply, top miner says It can take twice as long to build mines now than in the past, according to Southern Copper. Bloomberg News | March 2, 2021 | 12:51 pm