- Rio Tinto has been removed from Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund’s “blacklist” after selling its stake in the controversial Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia
- “The inmates are running the asylum”, as at least 39 illegal, “artisanal” miners die in mine collapse at Glencore/Katanga’s KOV open-pit copper and cobalt mine in the Congo
- Copper mines are getting significantly cleaner, as evidenced by OZ Minerals using commercial-scale solar, wind, and battery storage to help power its Carrapeteena Copper-Gold Mine
- Some in Minnesota are very concerned about the possibility of Glencore taking complete control of PolyMet’s copper, nickel, and cobalt project
- Cobalt and copper giant Glencore is literally cutting out the middleman as it faces multiple corruption investigations relative to its Congolese, Nigerian, and Venezuelan operations
- BHP, in partnership with Bureau Veritas, has validated its heap-leaching technology as a means of copper extraction at its Olympic Dam project in South Australia
- Copper use is expected to hit 26 million tonnes a year by 2040, double what it is today, and no one knows where we’re going to get all that new copper from
- Glencore makes announcement regarding “illegal” miner deaths on its Congolese property, after catastrophically failing to safeguard its own cobalt and copper assets
- The Congolese military has deployed troops to guard Chinese copper and cobalt producer China Molybdenum’s mine in the DRC from illegal miners
- Workers at Codelco’s Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile have rejected the company’s latest contract offer and will continue their already week-long strike
