March 4, 2021 Copper price crashes through $4.00, down 7% Massive selloff in industrial metals wipes billions off mining stocks – Freeport down 14%, Rio Tinto 11% for the week.
March 4, 2021 Seafloor miner DeepGreen plans listing through SPAC merger Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp will combine with DeepGreen in a $2.9bn deal.
March 4, 2021 Adriatic takes big strides forward at its brownfield projects in the Balkans In late January Adriatic was granted an exploitation permit for its Veovaca project near Vares in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 50 km north of the capital, Sarajevo.
March 4, 2021 Flights halted from PNG copper mine to Australia over virus cluster Five new confirmed infections were linked to the Ok Tedi copper mine.
March 4, 2021 Turquoise Hill CEO quits on Rio Tinto meddling Ulf Quellmann has resigned after top shareholder Rio Tinto told the Canadian miner it plans to vote against his re-election.
March 4, 2021 Green revolution gets more expensive as copper price rallies Copper is a vital part of green infrastructure from grids to wind turbines, and a recent price surge threatens to make decarbonization more costly.
March 4, 2021 Global copper smelting edges lower in February due to Chinese holiday The decline in China was partially offset by gains in Europe and North America.
March 4, 2021 Congo’s cobalt and copper production jumped in 2020, central bank says Congo produced 85,855 tonnes of cobalt in 2020, up 10% from 2019.
March 4, 2021 Resource nationalism surge spells rough times for miners Resource nationalism has been on the rise over the past year, but Verisk Maplecroft believes the worst is yet to come for miners as governments try to claw back the…
March 3, 2021 Electric car battery cobalt prices are rocketing Soaring demand in China, ongoing logistics issues along the Congo-South Africa-China route lift prices over 30% in single month, says Benchmark.
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
