April 3, 2023 FPX Nickel and Japan agree to explore globe for ‘disruptive’ awaruite JOGMEC is to cover as much as $483,000 annually for two years in the search for deposits of the nickel-iron alloy at the Klow project in British Columbia.
April 3, 2023 Copper price back below $9,000 on weak China industrial activity Metal price was also impacted by the rise in oil prices and fears about inflation and higher interest rates in the US.
April 3, 2023 Sumitomo Metal plans 11% cut in full-year copper output The decline comes as it plans to conduct two-month maintenance at its Toyo Smelter & Refinery in Ehime, western Japan.
April 3, 2023 Mitsui Mining expects H1 zinc output falling 4.7% y/y Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co Ltd plans to produce 107,000 tonnes of refined zinc in the first half of the 2023/24 financial year.
April 2, 2023 OPEC+ makes shock million-barrel cut in new inflation risk The new reduction is significant for a market where — despite the recent price fluctuations — supply was looking tight for the latter part of the year.
April 2, 2023 Barrick Gold replaces gold reserves, remains on track to execute 10-year business plan Barrick Gold’s executive chairman John Thornton said the company more than replaced the gold reserves it mined in 2022.
March 31, 2023 Column: Tin’s bull flames doused by weak electronic goods demand Tin may not stay off the radar for too long.
March 31, 2023 Barrick Gold, PNG ink new deal to restart Porgera mine Through the New Porgera Progress Agreement all parties have committed to resume operations as soon as possible.
March 30, 2023 Merdeka Battery plans to build two nickel HPAL plants Merdeka Battery will be the second nickel company to launch an IPO in Indonesia this year.
March 30, 2023 Ford in $4.5 billion deal for EV battery materials plant Automaker has joined PT Vale Indonesia and Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt as their new partner in a nickel processing plant in Indonesia.
Super Copper’s Cordillera project approved by Chile’s National Mining Authority The concessions cover approximately 6,858 hectares in the Atacama copper belt. December 24, 2025 | 11:24 am