March 8, 2021 Ganfeng joins China Minmetals lithium salt lake project for $225m The move will give Ganfeng, one of the world's top producers of lithium chemicals used in EV batteries, its first salt lake asset in China.
March 8, 2021 Codelco expects $2.8 billion profit this year Last year's profit at the state-run company was about $2.1 billion, before taxes and extraordinary items.
March 5, 2021 Tests find copper can kill 99.9% of germs on high-touch surfaces Copper is the only solid metal touch surface registered as a public health product by Health Canada and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
March 5, 2021 EV rollout will require huge investments in strained US power grids During several days of brutal cold in Texas, the city of Austin saw its fleet of 12 new electric buses rendered inoperative by a statewide power outage.
March 5, 2021 MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week Resource nationalism surge spells rough times for miners; Rio Tinto, Mongolia reach new Oyu Tolgoi expansion plan deal; Copper price crashes through $4.00, down 7%.
March 5, 2021 Activist investor Pentwater takes aim at Turquoise, Rio boards over CEO exit Pentwater is Turquoise Hill's largest shareholder after Rio with a 9% stake.
March 5, 2021 Nickel price slumps as electric dreams are rudely disturbed The metal has endured its worst week in almost ten years, with the London Metal Exchange (LME) price collapsing by 16% in the space of two days.
March 5, 2021 KGHM looking to sell two US copper assets Poland's state-run mining company plans to sell its Robinson and Carlota copper mines in the United States and reinvest the proceeds in its domestic operations.
March 5, 2021 Rock and heavy metal: winners emerge in energy transition As world economies shift to more electrification and away from fossil fuels to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, expect more copper mining and interest in metals like cobalt and…
March 5, 2021 Upstream tailings dams pose much higher stability risks, study finds Some 10% of all the facilities surveyed had reported a stability issue, but that figure jumped to 18.3% for active upstream facilities.
Copper at heart of probable Rio bid for Glencore: RBC A premium of 15% to 30% to Glencore’s early January share price could get the deal done, RBC analyst said. January 18, 2026 | 06:47 am
