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Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting is putting another A$8.7 million behind copper exploration in Canada, taking a proposed 13.5% stake in White Cliff Minerals and adding a…
An industrial tailings recovery operation requires integrated controls for water, energy, permitting, closure and disclosure. Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has signed a $498 million engineering, procurement…
Copper is trading at $14,464 per tonne on the LME, close to its recent $14,875 peak. At the same time, the Yangshan copper premium has climbed…
Illustrative view of a copper tailings recovery and wet-leach processing facility in Zambia’s Copperbelt. Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has signed a $498 million engineering, procurement and…
Copper cathode bundles prepared for movement through a Chinese port facility. China’s physical copper market is showing signs of recovery, with the Yangshan import premium approaching…
Global copper mine output is tracking toward its first annual decline since 2017, just as prices have reached levels once considered unlikely outside a severe supply…
Copper processing infrastructure at a Don Mario-style mining operation in Bolivia. Orvana Minerals has produced its first copper cathodes from the Oxides Stockpile Project at its…
Representative view of a copper-palladium processing complex under construction in Northwestern Ontario. Generation Mining has agreed to a term sheet with the Government of Ontario for…
Botswana’s Kalahari Copper Belt is attracting further exploration capital as Sandfire expands its regional position. Sandfire Resources has cleared the conditions required to acquire two copper…
Copper tailings recovery infrastructure at a hydrometallurgical processing facility. Konkola Copper Mines has signed a $498 million engineering, procurement and construction contract with China Nerin Engineering…
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