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Copper, nickel intersected at Tertiary’s Zambia project
14th April 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Aim-listed Tertiary Minerals has announced the completion of an initial scout drilling programme of three diamond drill holes for a total length of about 554 m at the Mukai copper project, in... 


China’s commodities imports shrink bar oil as trade woes worsen
China’s commodities imports shrink bar oil as trade woes worsen
14th April 2025 By: Bloomberg

China’s commodities imports mostly fell year-on-year in March, the last full month before the Trump administration choked off bilateral trade by imposing punitive levies on Chinese goods. With the... 


MC Mining continues positive momentum in governance
14th April 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

JSE-, ASX- and Aim-listed MC Mining has appointed Wang Lanlan (Lily) and Dr Huoxin Wang (Hevin) as nonexecutive directors, following the resignation of nonexecutive director An Chee Sin from the... 


Jubilee vice-chairperson Dr Mathews Phosa
Phosa to succeed Oliveira as Jubilee chairperson
14th April 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

Aim-listed Jubilee Metals’s chairperson Ollie Oliveira will retire with effect from April 30, and will be succeeded by current vice-chairperson Dr Mathews Phosa. Phosa will also assume Oliveira’s... 


Antofagasta plans $220m exploration push at Chile copper find
Antofagasta plans $220m exploration push at Chile copper find
14th April 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

UK-based copper miner Antofagasta is advancing a new exploration phase at its Cachorro project in northern Chile. The company has submitted an environmental impact statement (DIA) for the project,... 


URU completes airborne survey over Zebediela
11th April 2025 By: Darren Parker

Aim-listed exploration and development company URU Metals has announced the completion of a high-resolution airborne geophysical survey over its Zebediela project area, in South Africa, conducted... 


Centre for Palladium Technologies head Dmitry Izotov.
South Africa invited to help uplift palladium demand by 1.7-million ounces a year
11th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South African platinum group metals (PGM) companies have been invited to become part of a programme that is targeting an initial 1.7-million-ounce increase in demand for palladium, a PGM that... 


Glencore Copper Africa CEO Mark Davis, Glencore DRC president and KCC chairperson Marie-Chantal Kaninda, and DRC Minister of Mines Kizito
Copper Mark awarded to two of Glencore’s DRC operations
11th April 2025 By: Darren Parker

Diversified miner Glencore’s two operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – Kamoto Copper Company (KCC), a joint venture with Gécamines and the DRC government, and Mutanda Mining... 


An image of the Haib copper project
Koryx lists on the Namibia Securities Exchange
11th April 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Canadian copper company Koryx Copper has met all the requirements for a dual-listing on the Namibia Securities Exchange (NSX), with trading having started on April 10. There will be no change to... 


Trade war risks copper investments needed to meet future demand
Trade war risks copper investments needed to meet future demand
11th April 2025 By: Bloomberg

The copper industry is turning attention to how the escalating trade war between the world’s biggest economies will affect investments needed to meet future demand for the wiring metal. US... 


Hudbay strikes deal with US trade unions for Copper World mine construction
Hudbay strikes deal with US trade unions for Copper World mine construction
11th April 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Toronto- and New York-listed Hudbay Minerals has reached an agreement with a coalition of union building trades to support the construction of its Copper World mine in Arizona. The agreement,... 


Copper output from Chile's Codelco slips 6% in February
11th April 2025 By: Reuters

Copper production from Chilean State-run miner Codelco dipped 6% year-over-year in February, data from copper commission Cochilco showed on Thursday, slipping to 98,100 metric tons. Codelco is the... 


Future Metals eyes idled Savannah plant for ore processing
Future Metals eyes idled Savannah plant for ore processing
10th April 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

ASX- and Aim-listed Future Metals on Thursday announced a nonbinding agreement with investment company Zeta Resources to explore the potential for processing ore at the idled Savannah plant in... 


Peru mining chamber sees copper output up 2-4% this year
10th April 2025 By: Reuters

Peru's copper output is expected to grow between 2% and 4% this year, said the head of The National Society of Mining, Oil and Energy (SNMPE), Julia Torreblanca. That would put Peru's copper... 


Minerals Council CEO Mzila Mthenjane, senior policy analyst, public affairs and transformation Fundiswa Ndaba, and senior executive, public affairs and transformation Tebello Chabana.
Minerals Council scoring big on South Africa’s socioeconomic transformation front
9th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Minerals Council South Africa has been scoring big on the transformation front, going well beyond compliance, and hopes are now high that the upcoming Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development... 


US President Donald Trump's senior Africa adviser Massad Boulos
Congo hands over Americans jailed over failed coup as talks on minerals progress
9th April 2025 By: Reuters

Three American citizens jailed over a failed coup attempt in Democratic Republic of Congo were handed over to US custody on Tuesday, officials said, following high-level talks between the two... 


Rio Tinto hopes Trump provides favourable path for Resolution copper mine
9th April 2025 By: Reuters

Miner Rio Tinto sees US President Donald Trump's administration showing more interest in a bigger copper supply chain and hopes that will help push forward its Resolution mine project in Arizona,... 


Oil suffers biggest 5-day drop since 2022, metals plunge as trade war escalates
Oil suffers biggest 5-day drop since 2022, metals plunge as trade war escalates
9th April 2025 By: Reuters

il prices fell to a four-year low on Wednesday in its worst five-day losing streak in three years, while several commodities, including base metals, tumbled as the trade war between China and the... 


BHP gives Chile a $13bn reason to cut red-tape for mines
BHP gives Chile a $13bn reason to cut red-tape for mines
9th April 2025 By: Reuters

BHP Group is ready to start spending $13-billion to overhaul its aging copper mines in Chile, but is grappling with red tape, an executive said Tuesday. “As a country, we must act with a sense of... 


Anglo American urges faster permits in Chile to close copper supply gap
Anglo American urges faster permits in Chile to close copper supply gap
9th April 2025 By: Reuters

hile needs to speed up its permitting processes to help copper mining expand ahead of a large supply gap expected in the coming years, Anglo American Chile CEO Patricio Hidalgo said on Tuesday.... 


Chile regulator: Copper prices have likely peaked as US-China trade war looms
8th April 2025 By: Reuters

Chile's state copper commission Cochilco on Monday said that prices for the red metal have likely already peaked this year amid an escalatingtrade war, as U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to... 


Freeport-McMoRan CEO flags concern over global growth amid US tariffs
8th April 2025 By: Reuters

The CEO of copper producer Freeport-McMoRan said on Monday she was concerned about the health of the global economy and the possibility of recession and inflation in the wake of US tariffs rolled... 


Chinese buyers snapped up copper as prices plunged below $8 500
Chinese buyers snapped up copper as prices plunged below $8 500
8th April 2025 By: Bloomberg

Chinese copper buyers used Monday’s collapse in prices below $8500 a ton to significantly increase purchases, traders said, helping to trigger a dramatic rebound even as a rout in other global... 


Codelco boss keeps faith in copper fundamentals amid market rout
Codelco boss keeps faith in copper fundamentals amid market rout
8th April 2025 By: Bloomberg

Codelco, the world’s biggest copper supplier, says physical demand for the metal has remained strong amid all the upheaval in financial markets triggered by US President Donald Trump’s trade war.... 


Kamoa-Kakula copper complex
Kamoa-Kakula significantly increases imported hydroelectric power to start up new smelter
7th April 2025 By: Darren Parker

TSX- and OTCQX-listed Ivanhoe Mines’ joint venture (JV) Kamoa-Kakula copper complex, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has reached a major turning point following a significant increase in... 


New Gold consolidates free cashflow interest in New Afton
7th April 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Toronto-listed New Gold will gain full free cash flow ownership of its New Afton copper/gold mine in British Columbia, following a $300-million transaction with Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. The... 


Arc Minerals expands its presence in Zambia
7th April 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

London-listed Arc Minerals has entered into a binding  agreement for its wholly-owned Zambian subsidiary Foreland Minerals to acquire the Chingola copper project, in the Zambian Copperbelt, from... 


Barrick chairperson John Thornton.
Barrick advancing projects to support 30% growth by 2030
7th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

New York- and Toronto-listed gold and copper mining company Barrick is now advancing its portfolio of growth projects to support a planned 30% growth in gold equivalent ounces by the end of the... 


IGO announces executive departures
7th April 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed IGO on Monday announced the pending departure of two key executives, with CFO Kathleen Bozanic set to retire at the end of the year and chief people and sustainability officer Sam... 


Chile Minister says copper could find support at $3.9/lb
Chile Minister says copper could find support at $3.9/lb
7th April 2025 By: Reuters

 Chilean Mining Minister Aurora Williams said copper prices could reach a technical support level at $3.90 a pound amid current uncertainty, Diario Financiero reported on Sunday. The minister said... 


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