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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-gold infrastructure remains central to mining valuations, financing decisions and dealmaking. Author: Salini Krishnan Target publish: 4:00 PM ET Mining investment markets are being shaped by…
The mining investment landscape turned sharply more defensive after a hotter U.S. producer-price reading lifted Treasury yields and increased expectations of another Federal Reserve rate hike.…
Large-scale open-pit mining equipment operating across terraced benches. By Salini Krishnan Target publish time: 4:00 PM ET Copper’s record rally, fresh option-style dealmaking in Peru, renewed…
Copper near US$14,223 a tonne, gold around US$4,425 an ounce, lithium carbonate at roughly RMB150,000–160,000 a tonne and uranium near US$96 a pound are setting the…
Copper prices have entered a new phase of market stress. Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange climbed to about $14,533 per tonne on Sept. 7,…
Austral Resources Australia Ltd has formally escalated the corporate contest for Hammer Metals Ltd, submitting a binding scheme of arrangement proposal valued at approximately AU$80.7 million.…
Chile’s copper output fell to 403,424 tonnes in July, the weakest July result in the national data series since 2011. Chile’s copper production fell to its…
High-voltage grid infrastructure is becoming a more visible source of copper demand. Copper’s 2026 outlook is being shaped by a contest between two forces: a slower…
Mining M&A has moved into a more selective phase in 2026. Buyers are still pursuing copper, gold, aluminum and other critical-minerals assets, but the market is…
Northern Chile’s copper supply is under scrutiny as production weakness meets record prices. Copper has entered a more volatile phase after the London Metal Exchange price…
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