- Bad news for big copper and cobalt miners in the Congo: The DRC’s new President plans to enforce the country’s new mining code as enacted
- Peru will likely grant Southern Copper a construction license for its $1.4 billion Tia Maria project before its environmental permit expires this August
- With copper demand soon to be at an all-time high, why is investor sentiment so unsavory?
- Chile’s mining minister says that heavy rains in the country have cost the country $300 million in mining revenues and hit its copper industry especially hard
- Chile’s Chuquicamata underground copper mine is due to start operations in middle of this year, according to state-run mining company Codelco
- Vedanta says it has lost nearly $200 million since a court order shut down its copper smelter in Tamil Nadu state this past May
- Chinese miner MMG can’t ship copper concentrate in Peru due to an indigenous peoples’ blockade of a road at its Las Bambas mine site
- Rio Tinto is having problems sinking a shaft at its huge Oyu Tolgoi copper project in Mongolia and expects a delay in mining until 2021
- Nzuri Copper’s Directors are recommending that the company’s shareholders accept a cash acquisition proposal from China’s Chengtun Mining Group
- Those who avoid investing in copper right now may reduce risk, but they’ll also miss out on potentially exponential profits in the near future
