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Copper

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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 • May 11, 2022

What’s slowing down the world’s copper production?

Global phenomenon and innovations are keeping the copper industry afloat amid the international crisis, particularly with the rising demand for electric vehicles, limited copper production, and…

Africa • Mar 28, 2022

Ivanhoe’s Kamoa-Kakula concentrator plant

The world's fastest-growing and highest-grade major copper mining complex Kamoa-Kakula announced that it is ready to start the hot commissioning of its Phase 2, 3.8-million-tonne-per annum…

Copper • Feb 1, 2022

Biden administration rejected Twin Metals two

If two federal mining licenses are withdrawn, its ambitions to create an underground copper, nickel, and precious metal mine in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness…

Copper • Feb 1, 2022

Skillings Mining Review February 2022

The Skillings Mining Review February 2022 edition shines a spotlight on one of the industry’s hottest opportunities: “The Best Copper Stocks Potential in 2022.” With global…

Battery Metals • Jan 7, 2022

Metals Pricing Environment

As metals prices rise, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity is picking up steam in Latin America's mining industry.

Copper • Jan 5, 2022

Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s mining sector

A more recent characteristic of the JSE's (Johannesburg Stock Exchange) established mining sector taking risks to participating in the metals rush is that governments worldwide enact…

Copper • Dec 30, 2021

20 permits in Spain: Atalaya acquires 51%

Atalaya Mining (AIM: ATYM, TSX: AYM) of Cyprus has become a prominent player in the Ossa-Morena Metallogenic Belt in the Badajoz province of southwestern Spain, thanks…

Press Release • Dec 21, 2021

Lundin Mining to acquire world-class Josemaria

Lundin Mining announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Josemaria Resources to acquire all of its shares through a plan of arrangement…

Copper • Dec 20, 2021

Bacteria killed 100 times faster by new copper

Researchers from RMIT University and CSIRO, Australia's national research agency, have invented a copper surface that kills bacteria 100 times faster and more effectively than conventional…

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