Copper Stocks Articles

Panel of industry leaders discusses industry challenges

20 September 2021 / Staff reporter

Future remains golden for Rox ResourcesSPONSOREDrox resourcesOzAurum drills in home of goldSPONSOREDozaurum resourcesCan copper turn greener?SPONSOREDmarimaca copperFirefly shines as new era loomsSPONSOREDfirefly resourcesThe theme of this year's event was ‘A Brave New World' with discussions around ESG and technology. The panel touched on recent sexual assault allegations in Pilbara mine ca...Read More

Diverging trends for China's copper supply mix

17 September 2021 / Staff reporter

Slowing Chinese copper demand on account of uneven economic growth forecasts for the second half of this year looks set to squeeze imports going forward.Read More

Company expands Paterson Province ground by 1000sq.km

17 September 2021 / Staff reporter

The London-listed but Aussie-focused company has acquired the 75sq.km Pascalle tenement, which sits 20km west of Havieron and 14km east of Telfer.Read More

Matsa said to be up for sale

16 September 2021 / Staff reporter

The parties made binding offers last week for Minas de Aguas Tenidas, known as Matsa, Bloomberg reported, citing confidential sources.Rumours had started to swirl around Singapore-based trader Trafigura selling out of copper assets earlier this year, as Mining Journal columnist Richard Wachman commented in March.Trafigura had sold 50% of Matsa to the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Invest...Read More

Mounting geopolitical risks for iron ore majors

16 September 2021 / Staff reporter

Midnight Sun says Rio earn-in speaks for Solwezi qualitySPONSOREDmidnight sun miningFuture remains golden for Rox ResourcesSPONSOREDrox resourcesCashed-up Karora is doubling gold production at a blistering paceSPONSOREDkarora resourcesOzAurum drills in home of goldSPONSOREDozaurum resourcesThe mining industry has been little concerned in recent times with global power rivalries.  By and large...Read More

Reportedly monitoring situation

14 September 2021 / Staff reporter

"Due to the unstable situation in Afghanistan, the Mes Aynak copper mine invested by the company has not yet undergone substantial construction," chairman Zheng Gaoqing said on Monday at an online briefing, Reuters reported.Jiangxi has a 25% stake in Mes Aynak with MCC. They have a US$3 billion, 30-year contract to develop the project, which lies about 40km from Kabul and is also home to priceless...Read More

FMG's environment v profit strategy

13 September 2021 / Staff reporter

Midnight Sun says Rio earn-in speaks for Solwezi qualitySPONSOREDmidnight sun miningFuture remains golden for Rox ResourcesSPONSOREDrox resourcesCashed-up Karora is doubling gold production at a blistering paceSPONSOREDkarora resourcesOzAurum drills in home of goldSPONSOREDozaurum resourcesWhat Andrew Forrest plans for FMG, a business he created and in which he holds a stake of more than 35%, has...Read More

Govt restricts commercial water use

13 September 2021 / Staff reporter

Midnight Sun says Rio earn-in speaks for Solwezi qualitySPONSOREDmidnight sun miningFuture remains golden for Rox ResourcesSPONSOREDrox resourcesCashed-up Karora is doubling gold production at a blistering paceSPONSOREDkarora resourcesOzAurum drills in home of goldSPONSOREDozaurum resources"The distribution of water can create difficulties for farmers and other users of any basin in times of great...Read More

Pebble potentially blocked (again) by EPA move

13 September 2021 / Staff reporter

Midnight Sun says Rio earn-in speaks for Solwezi qualitySPONSOREDmidnight sun miningFuture remains golden for Rox ResourcesSPONSOREDrox resourcesCashed-up Karora is doubling gold production at a blistering paceSPONSOREDkarora resourcesOzAurum drills in home of goldSPONSOREDozaurum resourcesThe filing came the same day the company released a preliminary economic assessment foreshadowing expansion o...Read More

SolGold reports best hole yet at TAM

10 September 2021 / Staff reporter

Having released some promising drilling results from the target in May, SolGold reported its best intersections yet on Friday, with hole 13 yielding 1,010m at 0.Read More

Rio Tinto funding flagship Madison asset while management moves ahead with broader portfolio

10 September 2021 / Staff reporter

Mining Journal's Chris Cann speaks with American Pacific Mining chief executive Warwick Smith about the deal that saw the world's second-largest miner commit to a potential 11-year, US$30 million programme at the Madison copper project in Montana, along strike from the world-scale Butte mining district. They also talk through the acquisition of the Red Hill copper project in Nevada and its positio...Read More

Independent expert takes short cut

09 September 2021 / Staff reporter

Future remains golden for Rox ResourcesSPONSOREDrox resourcesCashed-up Karora is doubling gold production at a blistering paceSPONSOREDkarora resourcesOzAurum drills in home of goldSPONSOREDozaurum resourcesRising nationalismSPONSOREDswannTwo weeks ago, I wrote that investors appear to have been right in heavily discounting feasibility study valuations for the Mt Carrington project, if a recent re...Read More

Midnight Sun says Rio earn-in speaks for Solwezi quality

08 September 2021 / Midnight Sun Mining

Mining Journal's Chris Cann speaks with Midnight Sun chief executive Al Fabbro about the work programme Rio Tinto is currently funding and running to earn its exposure to the Solwezi copper-cobalt project in Zambia.Fabbro also addresses the issue of managing risk in one of Africa's traditional mining strongholds.Read More

Copper, nickel smelting subdued in August

08 September 2021 / Staff reporter

The platform, which monitors about 90% of global copper and nickel smelting activity, said along with seasonal maintenance, there had been extended downtime as copper smelters waited for expected higher treatment and refining charges later this year.It said there had been a significant reduction in activity in south central China, which was put down to recent flooding and power restriction directi...Read More

Intersects 1,184m at 0.68% Cu-eq

08 September 2021 / Staff reporter

Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipFuture remains golden for Rox ResourcesSPONSOREDrox resourcesCashed-up Karora is doubling gold production at a blistering paceSPONSOREDkarora resourcesOther assays from the resource expansion programme included 372m at 1.02% Cu-eq from 36m, within 462m at 0.91% Cu-eq."The strik...Read More

'Landmark' resource upgrade

06 September 2021 / Staff reporter

The company reported a 39% increase in measured, indicated and inferred resources to 308.9 million tonnes at 1.14% lithium oxide, 105 parts per million tantalum pentoxide and 0.Read More

Rio Tinto's returning star, aluminium

06 September 2021 / Staff reporter

Future remains golden for Rox ResourcesSPONSOREDrox resourcesCashed-up Karora is doubling gold production at a blistering paceSPONSOREDkarora resourcesOzAurum drills in home of goldSPONSOREDozaurum resourcesRising nationalismSPONSOREDswannThat was the price of the lightweight metal in early 2008 as Rio Tinto was being feted by investors for its acquisition six-months earlier of the Canadian-based...Read More

Bonues not pay raise

03 September 2021 / Staff reporter

Some 53% of union members voted to accept the new contract which included a bonus of 4.5 million pesos (US$5,800) and productivity bonuses despite not including a pay rise.Read More

Deep-South fighting for licence

02 September 2021 / Staff reporter

The Canada-based company had sought an urgent interdict to prevent the grant of a licence over the same area in July, when it also applied for a review of the refusal decision.It said yesterday the High Court of Namibia had rendered a decision to interdict and restrain the ministry of mines and energy from granting a licence over Haib, until the final determination of the application to review the...Read More

Too much jargon hinders investment

02 September 2021 / Staff reporter

Future remains golden for Rox ResourcesSPONSOREDrox resourcesCashed-up Karora is doubling gold production at a blistering paceSPONSOREDkarora resourcesOzAurum drills in home of goldSPONSOREDozaurum resourcesThe Future of Tailings ManagementSPONSOREDThe typical investor pitch from a mining industry executive still searching for a route to production relies too heavily on unexplained technical detai...Read More

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