April 15, 2019 Rio Tinto injects another $302m into Resolution copper project in Arizona Investment will go towards more drilling, orebody studies, infrastructure improvements and permitting activities.
April 12, 2019 Orocobre and Toyota green light lithium hydroxide plant in Japan The majority of production will feed the Japanese battery industry and will be sourced from the lithium carbonate produced from Orocobre’s Olaroz mine in Argentina.
April 11, 2019 Asia’s mining sector offsets risk with reward — report Mongolia has emerged as an investment hot spot for untapped reserves.
April 11, 2019 Coal’s collapse crowns winners and losers from China to the US It’s been a stormy month for benchmark coal prices in Asia, with the potential for reverberations across the globe.
April 11, 2019 Nickel shortage in view unless China-led projects in Indonesia succeed — analysts The outlook comes after China's Tsingshan Group surprised the market last year with a low-cost estimate and short time frame to launch a $700 million plant on the Indonesian island…
April 10, 2019 From turbines to thermostats: copper miners eye high-tech demand Attempts to replace copper in a lithium-ion battery's anode with aluminum have failed so far, which bodes well for major copper miners.
April 10, 2019 Smart money is piling into oil Oil prices jumped to five-month highs this week, pushed higher by a bullish cocktail of supply outages, geopolitical unrest and a sputtering shale sector.
April 10, 2019 Anglo Asian’s Azerbaijan gold output rises 5% in Q1 The company forecasts total metal production of between 82,000 to 86,000 gold-equivalent ounces in 2019.
April 10, 2019 Lynas board turns down $1.1B Wesfarmers bid The rare earths miner said its board had concluded it would not engage with retail and industrial conglomerate Wesfarmers, stating its unsolicited takeover offer undervalues Lynas' intellectual property.
April 9, 2019 India’s state copper miner plans $800m expansion Hindustan produces around 40,000 tonnes of copper per years, but the company plans to increase production to around 200,000 tonnes by 2025.
Copper poised for best year since 2009 after December surge All six base metals on the LME are headed for annual gains in a year that’s seen an array of supply-side pressures. December 24, 2025 | 10:11 am