CHART: Top miners leave money on the table amid copper price rally
Copper output from biggest producers disappoints with one glaring exception – Freeport McMoRan going underground at Grasberg.
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Vale ordered to pay $26 million to families of Brumadinho victims
The disaster killed 270 people but the court action only benefits the families of 131 workers directly hired by Vale.
Imperial drilling at Red Chris cuts 1.1 g/t gold, 1.1% copper
The East Ridge discovery is outside the current resources.
Mining People: ATAC, Brigadier, Cerrado, Filo Mining, Orca Gold, Three Valley Copper
Key moves in the mining sector.
Albemarle to boost extraction in search for green growth
The US company is introducing a way of extracting more of the lithium that’s normally captured in salts, thereby lifting yields to 80-85% from 50-55%.
US energy storage installations surge in Q1 — report
Energy storage deployments are expected to accelerate dramatically over the next 12 months.
Ganfeng Lithium to sell $630m of shares to fund expansion
The company in March announced an ambitious plan to increase its production capacity roughly fivefold to 600,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent a year.
Copper riches are in cross-hairs of Chile presidential hopeful
Daniel Jadue, the current front-runner in polls for November’s elections in Chile, wants to align mining rules with Peru, Argentina and Bolivia so they don’t compete for investments.
Copper price retreats on Chinese price curb concerns
China’s state planner on Wednesday renewed its pledge to step up monitoring of commodity prices and strengthen supervision of spot and futures markets.
