December 1, 2025 Saudi Arabia launches bidding for 13,000 sq km mineral exploration licences The Saudi kingdom accelerates efforts to tap deposits estimated at 9.4 trillion riyals ($2.50 trillion).
December 1, 2025 Ivanhoe Mines fires up Africa’s largest copper smelter Ivanhoe expects to feed its first concentrate into the smelter by year-end, kickstarting the production of 99.7%-pure blister copper anodes.
December 1, 2025 Barrick eyes IPO of North American gold assets A North American spinout would offer investors access to the miner's Nevada operations, Pueblo Viejo, and Fourmile project.
November 30, 2025 Zijin founder who built the $100 billion Chinese miner retires Chen Jinghe will step down as chairman after steering the company to the upper echelon of global metals miners.
November 28, 2025 Canada court allows investors to sue Lundin Mining for late disclosure The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday set aside a lower court’s interpretation that narrowly defined “material information."
November 28, 2025 Copper price in London hits new high amid bullish calls Three-month LME futures rose as much as 2.5% to a record $11,210.50 a ton.
November 28, 2025 SolGold rejects Jiangxi takeover bid amid copper deals frenzy The copper miner said it was the second takeover approach from Jiangxi Copper in less than a week.
November 28, 2025 China’s top copper smelters to cut output to combat negative processing fees China’s top copper smelters will cut production by over 10% in 2026 to counter overcapacity.
November 28, 2025 Copper tensions run high with global market at ‘historic point’ Pricing talks were unusually fierce during a major industry gathering in Shanghai this week.
November 28, 2025 Mercuria metals boss says ‘this is the big one’ for copper bulls Kostas Bintas says copper will soon start ratcheting higher still, as the revival of the lucrative US arbitrage trade fuels shortages elsewhere.
Copper poised for best year since 2009 after December surge All six base metals on the LME are headed for annual gains in a year that’s seen an array of supply-side pressures. December 24, 2025 | 10:11 am
