June 16, 2024 Taseko reaches tentative labour deal for Gibraltar mine restart Gibraltar is the second-largest open-pit copper mine in Canada.
June 14, 2024 Union at BHP copper mine in Chile accepts contract, averting strike Earlier this week, workers and the firm reached an initial agreement that required a vote by union members to go into effect.
June 14, 2024 Chinese firm says it’s probing case of missing Russian copper The monetary value of the copper is about 110 million yuan ($15 million).
June 13, 2024 Chinese trader’s $20 million pile of Russian copper goes missing Wuchan Zhongda Group, which had sales of $80 billion in 2023, bought 2,000 tons of refined copper from a Russian smelter that should have been delivered last month.
June 13, 2024 Ivanhoe Electric refutes Ma’aden share sale claims Ivanhoe said Saudi Arabia's Ma’aden, its 50/50 partner in the Middle East, has no intention to sell its shares in the US company.
June 12, 2024 Inflection Resources uses space technology to search for copper in Australia’s Macquarie Arc The initiative leverages the real-time Ambient Noise Tomography survey capabilities of Fleet Space’s mineral exploration technology on a large scale geophysical survey in New South Wales.
June 12, 2024 A fifth of copper smelting capacity suspended in May, data shows Global inactivity reached 25.4% on May 8, with seasonal maintenance closures remaining a key feature, Earth-i said.
June 12, 2024 Ero Copper’s Tucumã project set for production in early Q3 The Tucumã open-pit mine is expected to produce 7,000 to 25,000 tonnes of copper concentrate this year.
June 12, 2024 Zambia to set up mineral investment and trading unit The country, which produced 698,000 tonnes of copper in 2023, is targeting 3 million tonnes in annual output within the next decade.
June 12, 2024 MMG to invest $700 million to double copper output at Botswana mine MMG announced in March that it had completed a deal to buy Canada-based Cuprous Capital, the parent company of Khoemacau mine.
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
