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.
June 12, 2024 BHP, Spence mine workers reach initial wage deal Union members have until Friday to vote on the preliminary wage deal agreed on the fifth day of government-mediated talks.
June 12, 2024 Forget copper and gold as steel-making raw material outperforms Prices of 44% grade manganese ore have almost doubled since the start of the year, beating gains of 15% in copper, 12% in gold and almost 30% in tin.
June 11, 2024 Chart: Codelco delivers worst month of copper output since 2006 The Chilean state behemoth struggles to maintain its status as the world’s top copper supplier.
South Africa’s last manganese smelter on the brink as high power costs weigh Transalloys CEO Konstantin Sadovnik says the business has been loss‑making for about three years. December 30, 2025 | 08:13 am
