Tags - Copper
The price of copper declined for a fifth day in a row on Thursday despite trade data showing Chinese imports of the orange metal growing at a record-setting pace.
News ID: 3630    Publish Date : 2019/02/15

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. has offered to buy the Zambian government’s 20 percent stake in Africa’s biggest copper mine for as much as $700 million, according to two people familiar with the transaction.
News ID: 3568    Publish Date : 2019/02/05

Irish researchers found a way to treat osteomyelitis, a particularly difficult-to-treat bone infection, using copper.
News ID: 3551    Publish Date : 2019/02/04

January’s copper price rally came to a screeching halt on Friday after a key gauge showed Chinese factory output shrinking at the fastest pace in almost three years.
News ID: 3528    Publish Date : 2019/02/02

Chilean copper miner Antofagasta Plc is evaluating building a new concentrator plant at its Centinela mine that would cost around $3 billion, the chief executive of the company was quoted telling a local daily on Sunday.
News ID: 3454    Publish Date : 2019/01/28

A paper published in the journal Geology predicts that scientists are close to proving that microbes have control over the precipitation of metals in near-surface environments.
News ID: 3452    Publish Date : 2019/01/28

Following the development of a copper-graphene nanocomposite that adds 3% graphene to pure copper, Codelco Tech, a subsidiary of the world’s top copper producer, and engineering innovation firm Ennomotive chose three people to lead the creation of applications where the new material can be practically used.
News ID: 3451    Publish Date : 2019/01/28

Imperial Metals has published its fourth quarter and year-end numbers for its operations. For the full year, the company produced 75.3 million lb. of copper and 79,056 oz. of gold.
News ID: 3397    Publish Date : 2019/01/25

Global miner Anglo American (LON:AAL) ended 2018 on a high note, posting Thursday strong fourth quarter production results despite setbacks at its iron ore operations in both South Africa and Brazil.
News ID: 3383    Publish Date : 2019/01/24

The negative effects of trade disputes on global growth this year will push down demand for base metals and steel-making commodities, while the economic uncertainty will drive gold prices higher, CIBC says.
News ID: 3355    Publish Date : 2019/01/22

Oyu Tolgoi is expected to produce 125,000 to 155,000 tonnes of copper and 180,000 to 220,000 ounces of gold in concentrates this year, Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) reports.
News ID: 3324    Publish Date : 2019/01/19

A worsening of the ongoing economic slowdown in China, consumer of about half the world’s commodities, is the single biggest challenge mining and metals companies face this year, a new survey of senior executives shows.
News ID: 3315    Publish Date : 2019/01/18

Hudbay Minerals’ (TSE, NYSE: HBM) second-largest investor, Waterton Global Resource Management, is seeking to oust the Canadian miner’s chief executive officer and overhaul its board.
News ID: 3291    Publish Date : 2019/01/16

BEIJING – China's unwrought copper imports rose 12.9 percent to a record annual high of 5.3 million tonnes in 2018, customs data showed on Monday, boosted by the country's crackdown on scrap metal shipments.
News ID: 3270    Publish Date : 2019/01/15

Murchison Minerals (TSXV: MUR) Minerals announced Thursday that it has doubled the size of the previously announced VTEM airborne survey and tripled its mineral land holdings at its 100% owned zinc/copper/silver Brabant VMS project in central Saskatchewan.
News ID: 3230    Publish Date : 2019/01/11

Surge Exploration (TSX‐V: SUR) announced on Wednesday that its board of directors approved a strategic reorganization of the company’s assets that would spin off its interests in the “Hedge Hog” and “Mineral Mountain” exploration projects, both copper/gold projects in British Columbia, Canada.
News ID: 3219    Publish Date : 2019/01/10

Base metals started the new year where they left off the old one, by falling again.The London Metal Exchange index (LMEX) slumped to a one-and-a-half year low of 2730.1 on Jan. 3.The trigger was Apple Inc's revenue warning, not the type of news event that normally roils prices of old-economy metals such as copper, lead and zinc.
News ID: 3210    Publish Date : 2019/01/09

At least 30 Afghans were killed on Sunday when the tunnel they were digging in to mine gold in northern Afghanistan collapsed, officials said.
News ID: 3182    Publish Date : 2019/01/07

Global refined copper consumption will register steady growth over the coming years, driven by demand from the power industry, rising electric vehicle (EV) production and a positive global economic growth outlook, a new copper supply and demand outlook by Fitch Solutions shows.
News ID: 3181    Publish Date : 2019/01/07

Ecuador, one of the hottest destinations for copper prospectors, aims to more than double the value of mining to its economy by 2021, but projects risks delays and potential halts due to growing local opposition to the extraction of the country’s resources.
News ID: 3180    Publish Date : 2019/01/07