January 25, 2018 Canada’s Gahcho Kue diamond mine boosts Anglo American output, but copper flat The company beat expectations on Thursday with a 5% increase in 2017 production.
January 25, 2018 Freeport profit pops higher; miner makes progress in Indonesia The world's second-largest copper miner by production also said talks with Indonesia re Grasberg were advancing.
January 18, 2018 The periodic table of commodity returns If for some reason, you still think that the commodity markets are predictable, today’s chart provides a nice piece of humble pie.
January 16, 2018 Canadian companies want to extract nickel, vanadium, cobalt from petcoke They're running a study led by Paul Watkinson, who has investigated the conversion of carbonaceous solids into gaseous and liquid fuels.
January 15, 2018 Metals power higher as sickly dollar spurs copper-to-gold rally Copper surged as much as 2.1 percent, the most since Nov. 13, to $7,262 a metric ton on the London Metal Exchange.
January 15, 2018 Canada’s RNC Minerals in talks to fund battery material mine RNC Minerals in talks with commodity traders, mine operators and financiers to secure $1bn to build world's biggest nickel and cobalt project next year.
January 12, 2018 Planetary Resources a step closer to mining asteroids with spacecraft launch Data obtained from the Arkyd-6 will be use in the development of the Arkyd-301, Planetary Resources next spacecraft platform and the beginning of its space resource exploration program.
January 12, 2018 Indonesia sets framework for Freeport to yield control of Grasberg mine Indonesia state-owned holding Asahan Aluminum, or Inalum, would grab a 41.64% stake in the local unit of Freeport, which increases its current ownership in it to 51%.
January 11, 2018 BHP is building an EV hub it doesn’t want to keep The good luck for BHP is that only about 40 to 45 percent of existing nickel mine supply is suitable for processing into a battery-grade chemical product.
January 10, 2018 Pancontinental in the quest for “blue gold” The company is looking in Canada, the world's No. 3 cobalt producer.
Chinese copper smelter, Antofagasta agree to record low fees Tough negotiations reflected a market facing abundant refining capacity but tight global ore supplies. December 22, 2025 | 12:20 pm
