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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.

Press Release • Oct 15, 2021

Epiroc wins large mining equipment order in Turkey

Epiroc, leading productivity and sustainability partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, has won a large order for mining equipment from Eti Bakir in Turkey. The…

Copper • Sep 27, 2021

Proposal Protects Historic Tribal Sites From

Arizona Rep. Grijalva has introduced a proposal that would protect a historic tribal site from destructive mining for the long term. In order to prevent destructive…

Copper • Sep 17, 2021

A proposal by Rep. Grijalva to permanently

Washington, D.C. is the capital of the United States of America. The Save Oak Flat Act was presented to the public by Chair Raul M. Grijalva…

Copper • Sep 13, 2021

Copper mining is possible in dormant volcanoes?

Digging deep wells beneath dormant volcanoes to suck out the metal-containing fluids trapped beneath them, according to Oxford scientists, is a more sustainable method to copper…

Copper • Sep 10, 2021

Oz Minerals authorized $600 million investment

With the Wira shaft mine extension allowing access to previously uneconomic regions and opening up possible new possibilities, we are delighted to anticipate a long and…

Copper • Jul 7, 2021

Federal secrecy is a warning signal on mining

Minnesota should stop all state-level work on the controversial Twin Metals Mining proposal if the Trump government doesn't share vital information about copper mining's risks to…

Copper • May 2, 2021

More valuable than gold and important for

Tellurium - one of the rarest elements on the earth - will soon be recovered as a byproduct of copper smelting at Rio Tinto's Kennecott mine…

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