June 12, 2019 Nyrstar smelter outage rattles London lead market: Andy Home The outage of Nyrstar's Port Pirie lead smelter in Australia has injected a rare bit of excitement into the London lead market.
June 7, 2019 Nyrstar suspends Port Pirie lead smelter, declares force majeure It stopped output at Port Pirie on May 28 due to an unplanned outage at the blast furnace.
June 6, 2019 Nyrstar suspends Port Pirie lead smelter, declares force majeure The company stopped output at Port Pirie on May 28 due to an unplanned outage at the blast furnace.
June 4, 2019 Canada’s Monarca to acquire San José project in Mexico Chip sampling on the property produced significant gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead results.
May 22, 2019 Osisko Metals drills 13 metres of 19% zinc+lead at Pine Point The company has released additional assay results from 145 drill holes completed at the Pine Point zinc-lead camp.
May 9, 2019 China’s environmental crackdown buoys lead, zinc Zinc stocks plummeted from 900,000 tonnes at the beginning of 2014 to around 120,000 five years later - due to a rash of zinc mine closures over the past few…
May 8, 2019 Osisko Metals tests pre-concentrating sorters Two technologies were tested – x-ray transmission sorting and dense media separation.
May 6, 2019 Hong Kong exchange to launch dollar-denominated mini contracts for base metals The new offering comes five years after a similar product fizzled on the Singapore Exchange (SGX).
May 6, 2019 Massive base metals mine in Myanmar to start production in 2021 Bawdwin will be the world’s No. 3 producing lead mine and the tenth largest silver operation. It’s also set to become a significant zinc producer.
April 30, 2019 China’s metals imports robust despite macro doubts Industrial metal markets are taking a breather as they await tangible evidence that China's latest stimulus package is feeding through to a flagging manufacturing sector.
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
