- 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
- The Indian copper industry could see 10,000 jobs slashed over the next three years as India’s imports of the red metal rise
- A drop in Chilean and Indonesian copper production is offsetting the little bit of growth that is coming from other copper-producing countries
- 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
- Copper production at Codelco’s Chuquicamata mine in Chile, one of the world’s largest, cut in half immediately following workers deciding to strike last week
- 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
- Since the election of the Congo’s new President, Felix Tshisekedi, the DRC has become even more inhospitable a jurisdiction for would-be cobalt and copper miners to work with
- Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines says its giant Kakula mine in the Congo will produce its first copper by 2020
