Over the coming years, Fitch forecasts high copper prices on the back of a bullish demand outlook as the economics of copper mining projects will become increasingly attractive to investors.

After a brutal second quarter, investors in the world’s 50 biggest mining companies are in full retreat as metal prices slump and uncertainty grips the sector.     

The DMS unit achieved 75.2% recovery, processing ~2,300kg of concentrate mined at Vital’s Nechalacho rare earth project in the Northwest Territories .

Zinc8 Energy Solutions Inc. has garnered the support from the U.S. Senate majority leader Charles E. Schumer (Democratic — New York) for Zinc8 to establish a manufacturing facility in Ulster, N.Y., which is the former TechCity Site location. As detailed through a press release issued today by the office of Mr. Schumer, the Senator has… Continue reading Zinc8 gets U.S. Senate support for manufacturing plant

The Caribbean country has set up a special senate committee to investigate how best to commercialize and develop potential lithium resources.

Lately, gold has failed to attract safe-haven flows despite growing recessions risks.

China’s steel mills are sounding the alarm over crisis conditions in the industry as margins plunge due to weak demand. 

$3.8 million investment supports women and families in Northern Chile where Teck is building its QB2 project.

A distributed recycling system that uses microwave heating may be a more efficient mechanism for extracting metals from old alkaline batteries.

Key moves in the mining sector.

The lawsuit by 200,000 Brazilians over the deadly dam failure in 2015 alleges the miner ignored safety warnings.

Despite gold’s price slump, strong copper and iron ore prices lifted MINING.COM’s ranking of the world’s 50 most valuable miners to a new record high of $1.35 trillion.