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.