June 16, 2021 Chilean senators pause to ponder tax impacts The senate’s mining and energy committee will hold weekly hearings on the proposed royalty through mid July.
June 16, 2021 Copper price and China reserves: sell on rumor, buy on fact Beijing confirmed the release of state reserves for the first time in a decade to cool metals markets, but copper prices rose more than 1% on the news.
June 16, 2021 Serbia to become Europe’s no. 2 copper producer thanks to Cukaru Peki mine Zijin Mining's mine will have an initial average copper output of 91,000 tonnes a year, before reaching a peak of 135,000.
June 16, 2021 Sierra Metals granted key permit for Peruvian expansion It allows the company to boost throughput by 20% to 3,600 tonnes/day at its flagship Yauricocha copper mine.
June 16, 2021 China to release copper, aluminium and zinc reserves to stabilize prices Notice came as Beijing struggles to cool a surge in metal prices this year fuelled by a post-pandemic economic recovery, ample global liquidity and speculative buying that has dented manufacturers’…
June 15, 2021 Canada, EU in raw materials pact to cut China reliance “We as Europeans want to diversify our imports away from producers like China because we want more sustainability, less environmental damage and we want transparency on raw materials.”
June 14, 2021 Copper price crashes 5% on talk China will release strategic reserves Beijing may dump state metal stocks on overheating markets and is cracking down on speculation as producer inflation hits 12-year high.
June 14, 2021 Teck Resources on track to double copper output by 2023 The company has a growth initiative in place at each of its core copper operations comprising four operating mines.
June 11, 2021 BHP dodges copper strike in Chile with eleventh-hour wage deal The deal will ease concerns over a potential stoppage that would have further tightened global supplies of the metal.
June 11, 2021 China May copper output down m/m, lead production up China's major copper smelters reduced output by 4.34% in May from a month earlier to 765,100 tonnes as several of them carried out maintenance.
Disruption and dislocation: LME metals’ year in seven charts Supply disruption and tariff dislocation have defined the London Metal Exchange base metals complex this year. December 23, 2025 | 07:58 am
