October 3, 2023 Vale taps BluestOne to repurpose nickel waste in Brazil Vale will provide up to 50,000 tonnes per year of refinery slag from Onça Puma to BluestOne for the next 10 years.
October 3, 2023 Once sequestered, CO2 can be turned into methane By wresting the carbon from CO2 sequestered through carbon capture technologies and affixing it to hydrogen atoms, it is possible to form methane.
October 3, 2023 Adventus, Salazar delay construction of Ecuador project The companies now expect to start building their Curipamba-El Domo copper-gold project in the second quarter of 2024.
October 2, 2023 Firm dollar and rising inventories send copper prices below $8,000 Inventories of copper in LME-registered warehouses have surged 141% in the past three months.
October 2, 2023 Codelco strikes early deal with Radomiro Tomic mine supervisors’ union Nearly 90% of union members voted to approve the agreement.
September 29, 2023 Copper and silver: The electrical metals Copper and silver are often skipped over in discussions of metals needed for the green economy, with battery metals like lithium, graphite, cobalt and nickel hogging the limelight.
September 29, 2023 Peru won’t force contested mining projects on communities Both the Tia Maria project and the Las Bambas copper mine have been heavily opposed by local communities.
September 29, 2023 Supervisors at Escondida mine reject contract offer, strike possible The union says BHP is looking to reduce benefits and production bonuses while extending working hours.
September 29, 2023 Fortune Minerals, Rio Tinto to collaborate on critical minerals recovery technology The collaboration will aim to increase Fortune's cobalt and bismuth refining operations to process co-product streams of the minerals recovered from the Kennecott smelter.
September 29, 2023 Copper price rebounds on signs that China’s economic recovery may be strengthening The Chinese official manufacturing gauge is expected to signal expansion for the first time since March.
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
