February 13, 2019 Teck misses Q4 profit estimates on lower copper, zinc and oil prices Canada’s largest diversified miner saw its quarterly profit drop 41.5 % from the year earlier, amid lower prices for copper, zinc and oil.
February 12, 2019 NGOs push to expel Brazil miner Vale from UN pact over dam disaster "The Brumadinho disaster shows that favoring profit over safety has been Vale's standard operating procedure."
February 12, 2019 Livent to export Chinese lithium in 2019 due to subsidy uncertainty The action will increase Livent's sale taxes in China but give it greater access to growing markets for lithium in Japan, South Korea and elsewhere.
February 12, 2019 Nickel rally fades, electric vehicle buzz doesn’t Was it another false dawn for the nickel market?
February 12, 2019 Inside the global iron ore crisis: What’s next in four charts Iron ore’s dramatic rally will raise costs for steelmakers, potentially crimping their profit margins, unless they are able to pass on the additional burden to customers.
February 12, 2019 Iron ore futures tumble in Singapore as Vale-driven rally frays Vale has flagged production cuts of as much as 70 million tons in the wake of the deadly dam breach, spurring worries about a substantial loss of seaborne supply.
February 11, 2019 Brazil miner Vale knew deadly dam had heightened risk of collapse We used to say these kinds of mining incidents were acts of God, but now ... we consider them failures in engineering.
February 11, 2019 Southern Copper reports $293.2m in Q4 net income The companies 112 percent rise in net income in all of 2018 was due mainly to higher sales and lower taxes.
February 11, 2019 Grupo Mexico net profit falls by a third in Q4 The company reported $2.567 billion in revenues for the fourth quarter, down slightly from a year earlier.
February 11, 2019 Livent swings to quarterly profit on rising lithium demand The company, which produces lithium in Argentina, posted net income of $25.9 million, or 18 cents per share.
Rio Tinto’s fourth-quarter iron ore, copper output beat estimates Despite the comeback performance, Rio Tinto is still in danger of losing the top producer spot to Brazil's Vale. January 20, 2026 | 02:08 pm
