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Track the pulse of the global copper industry with Skillings. This category brings you authoritative reporting on copper mining projects, exploration updates, pricing shifts, smelting developments, and infrastructure demand. As a critical metal for electrification, EVs, and clean energy grids, copper’s role in the green economy is expanding fast—Skillings keeps you informed, competitive, and ahead of market trends.
LME copper inventories jumped 21.4 percent over six sessions to 273,750 tonnes just as workers struck Teck's Highland Valley mine, highlighting a split between U.S. cathode stockpiling and tight mine…
The United States has taken its first physical delivery of copper into Project Vault. The $12 billion strategic minerals reserve launched at the White House in…
Zambia and the United States have signed a five-year health-financing agreement worth $2.49 billion in combined commitments. Negotiations over a separate minerals framework continue, leaving the…
Copper processing and logistics infrastructure reflect the supply-chain pressures shaping the market. Copper is trading close to record levels as Chinese manufacturers rebuild inventories ahead of…
Sulphuric Acid Supply Chain Risk: How Export Curbs Threaten Copper and Nickel Mining Sulphuric acid rarely features in discussions about the critical minerals supply chain. Yet…
Copper production at a large open-pit mine remains constrained by operational disruptions, declining grades and long project timelines. Copper prices remain near record territory even as…
Representative documentary view of a shallow copper operation in central Tanzania. Kenya-based Marula Mining is moving to take full ownership of the Kinusi copper mine in…
The Cobre Panamá copper operation in Panama remains central to First Quantum’s financial and strategic outlook. First Quantum Minerals’ three-year agreement with Jiangxi Copper has kept…
A copper exploration site in the remote northwest Queensland landscape. AIC Mines has agreed to acquire Materra Metals for A$120 million, adding the Mt Cuthbert Copper…
Copper cathode and concentrate move through an operating industrial handling facility. Market snapshot Copper’s physical market is tightening as exchange stocks fall, nearby prices move into…
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