July 7, 2025

Chile’s biggest copper windfall in years signals higher output

The country that accounts for about a quarter of the world’s mined copper shipped $4.7 billion worth of the metal last month.

July 7, 2025

Luca logs high-grade gold, silver at Campo Morado deposit in Mexico

Luca is conducting 5,000 metres of drilling at the 121-sq.-km Camp Morado deposit this year as it targets near-mine resource expansion.

July 7, 2025

Aya discovers new gold-copper zone at Morocco site

The latest drill results extend the Boumadine project’s Imariren mineralized trend by 1 km.

July 7, 2025

LME’s new Hong Kong warehouses attract copper deliveries

Some additional amounts of copper were expected to come to the LME-registered warehouses in Hong Kong ahead of July 15.

July 7, 2025

China’s mining investment sets new record

There were 10 deals worth more than $100 million in 2024, the most since 2013, data from S&P and Mergermarket shows.

July 7, 2025

Royal Gold to acquire Sandstorm, Horizon in $3.7B deal

The combined company will have 80 assets, with 87% of revenue from precious metals and gold contributing about 75% alone.

July 7, 2025

CHART: Nickel overtakes lithium as most valuable EV battery metal as prices slump

And that is despite the significant move towards nickel-free batteries such as lithium iron phosphate or LPF and the significant cooling of nickel prices at the same time.

July 7, 2025

Indonesian minister seeks support to allow Amman to export copper concentrate

Amman said in February that it had around 200,000 metric tons of concentrate inventory available for export.

July 6, 2025

South32 sells Cerro Matoso nickel mine as it looks to copper and zinc

Australian miner sells Colombian operation to refocus on copper and zinc.

July 6, 2025

Column: Metals smelting is the West’s next critical minerals crisis

China's rapid expansion of processing capacity is crushing margins across the metallic spectrum.