July 9, 2018 CHART: Copper, nickel, zinc prices – plenty upside just to revert to mean Even after two years of gains, industrial metals trade well below 10-year mean prices. Silver looks cheap, but gold, crude may be fully priced already.
July 5, 2018 Copper price takes another huge hit Bears ignore soothing words about US-China trade war dropping copper to near 1-year low in frenzied trade.
July 4, 2018 Indonesia extends Freeport operating permit for Grasberg Indonesia has extended an operating permit for Freeport's Grasberg copper-gold mine while discussions over long-term rights continue.
July 2, 2018 CHARTS: Halfway through 2018 and the mining rally is over “China’s buoyant mood is giving way to concerns around tightening credit and a slowing manufacturing sector."
June 17, 2018 EPA to clean up wastewater at 26 Colorado mines The selected areas are known for presenting high levels of aluminum, cadmium, copper, iron, lead and/or zinc.
June 1, 2018 Silver miners’ Q1’18 fundamentals The major silver miners’ stocks remain deeply out of favor, languishing near multi-year lows.
May 28, 2018 China metals companies trade on Shanghai exchange’s new platform It will expand to include more commodities, including zinc, lead, nickel, tin and silver, in the next step.
May 23, 2018 Fireweed files a PEA with a pre-tax IRR of 32% The pre-production capital expenditure is $404M, which includes $105 million of capital cost required to upgrade the government-owned North Canol Road.
May 23, 2018 Rio Tinto about to offload stake in Grasberg mine for $3.5 billion Company confirmed is in talks to sell its stake in the world’s second largest copper mine to Indonesia’s Inalum.
DRC revives $29B iron ore export plan once tied to billionaire Gertler The area that Kinshasa wants to develop has cumulative iron ore resources of 15 billion to 20 billion tonnes grading more than 60% iron. January 15, 2026 | 08:42 am
