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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.
Copper Giant Resources has closed a C$31 million strategic financing led by Denarius Metals, while Trafigura has agreed to buy a portion of future copper and…
Adjacent copper operations and shared infrastructure are becoming strategic assets as miners compete for scale, supply and processing capacity. Copper is moving from being one commodity…
Copper is trading near US$14,285 per tonne, but the price is being shaped by an unusual combination of tariff positioning, regional inventory imbalances and supply disruption…
Copper consolidation is moving beyond headline mergers. The emerging strategy combines large-scale corporate integration, project-level commitments, minority partnerships and district-scale exploration. For operators and investors, the…
Copper projects are taking longer to move from discovery to production, just as grid investment, electric vehicles, renewable power and data centers increase demand for the…
Copper cathode inventory and warehouse infrastructure are becoming central to price formation as tariff uncertainty reshapes regional flows. SKILLINGS MINING INTELLIGENCE Copper’s retreat from its late-August…
Copper cathode sheets at an industrial refinery and loading facility. The copper price forecast 2026 is increasingly being shaped by a simple mismatch: demand from grids,…
Aerial view of an integrated copper mining district in northern Chile. Mining M&A deals 2026 are entering a more demanding phase as the proposed Anglo American-Teck…
Lodestar Minerals has reported copper, gold, cobalt and molybdenum mineralisation in its first diamond hole at the Three Saints project in northern Chile, saying the results…
The Dos Amigos project sits in Chile’s Atacama Region, between La Serena and Vallenar. Sumitomo Corporation and the G Mining Group have taken a combined 25%…
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