May 28, 2021 Rio Tinto, Comptech produce aluminum alloys for EVs, 5G antennas Rio Tinto designed the alloys for the semi-solid rheocasting process offered by Comptech.
May 27, 2021 Cost of Fortescue’s Iron Bridge project shoots up once again The world’s fourth-largest iron ore producer raised the cost estimate for its Iron Bridge magnetite project to between $3.3 and $3.5 billion.
May 27, 2021 DRC bans export of cobalt, copper concentrate – Fastmarkets The order comes after mega-mine Kamoa Kakula's debut.
May 27, 2021 Freeport’s Adkerson sees copper scarcity trumping cooling effort Copper is a very long term business and is “extraordinarily strong,” the chief executive says.
May 27, 2021 Rio begins drilling at Madison copper-gold project in Montana Rio has identified numerous targets during its two-plus years of exploration on the property.
May 27, 2021 Union walks off job at BHP’s Escondida, Spence copper mines in Chile The strike at Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, and at Spence comes as copper prices have spiked amid soaring demand.
May 27, 2021 Home: The human bottleneck in critical minerals supply chains The paradox of the green revolution is that public opinion is firmly in favour of decarbonisation but not the mines and smelters needed to get there.
May 27, 2021 Global palladium deficit to widen in 2021 – Nornickel The world's largest palladium producer plans to partly compensate for the deficit from its stockpiles left from 2020.
May 26, 2021 BHP to take contingency measures at Chile mines after strike called The strike comes as global copper prices hover near record highs and amid rising political risk in the region.
South32 posts nearly 17% jump in quarterly manganese output The world's biggest manganese producer produced 1.3 million wet metric tons of the steel additive for the December quarter. January 21, 2026 | 02:06 pm
