China's unwrought copper imports in 2025 fell to the lowest level since 2020, China's customs data showed on Wednesday, as high prices weighed on demand. The top consumer imported 5.32-million... 

Canadian company Highland Copper said on Tuesday that it would sell its 34% interest in the White Pine North project in the US to joint venture partner Kinterra Copper for a total of about... 

Rio Tinto has engaged JPMorgan and two other advisers on its potential acquisition of Glencore, a deal that could create the world's largest miner worth over $200-billion, a source with knowledge... 

The Future Minerals Conference, the Future Minerals Forum’s (FMF's) Ministerial Roundtable and the “largest such gathering of its kind globally”, has grown considerably over the past few years,... 

Aim- and AltX-listed Shuka Minerals has raised £1-million through a placing of 25-million new ordinary shares at a placing price of £0.04 apiece. Participants in the placing will be issued one... 

TSX-V-listed Tsodilo Resources has announced the verification of significant critical minerals and rare earth element (REE) mineralisation from its 100%-owned Gcwihaba Metals project, in northwest... 

TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines says development of its Platreef mine, in South Africa, is rapidly advancing after the first production of concentrate was achieved in November last year. The company... 

Africa does not have the luxury of treating regional cooperation and regional beneficiation as afterthoughts. If the continent continues to negotiate in small, fragmented units, the result will be... 

A US Republican congressman has introduced legislation aimed at overturning a Biden administration decision that restricted mining across a large area of northern Minnesota, reopening a... 

Finance ministers from the G7 and other major economies met in Washington on Monday to discuss ways to reduce dependence on rare earths from China, including setting a price floor and new... 

Chilean State-run miner Codelco is expected to produce 1.344-million metric tons of copper in 2026, up about 10 000 tons from last year, Chairman Maximo Pacheco said on Monday. Speaking to Reuters... 

BHP Group’s bold bid to buy rival Anglo American in 2024 was supposed to set it up as the clear winner in a copper boom it had long predicted. Two years later, the copper market is indeed booming.... 

The Democratic Republic of Congo is sending its first shipment of copper to the US through a partnership with Mercuria Energy Group, as the Trump administration pushes to challenge China’s... 

Australia-listed Revolver Resources has outlined a compelling business case to restart its Dianne copper mine in north Queensland, following the completion of a detailed recommencement study that... 

Aim- and AltX-listed Shuka Minerals expects to shortly receive £815 000 from investment banking group Gathoni Muchai Investments as part of an increased loan agreement entered into in June last... 

Critical minerals company Talon Metals has completed its previously announced acquisition of Lundin Mining’s Eagle Mine and associated Humboldt Mill, creating a multi-asset, cash-generating... 

Rio Tinto's talks to buy Glencore and create a new global industry leader could spur consolidation efforts across the copper-hungry mining sector and heap pressure on BHP, currently the world's... 

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will urge Group of Seven nations and others to step up their efforts to reduce reliance on critical minerals from China when he hosts a dozen top finance... 

ASX-listed Celsius Resources has appointed Grant Samuel Capital Advisory to assist with finalising financing for the Maalinao-Caigutan-Biyog (MCB) copper/gold project, held under its Philippine... 

With mining major Glencore having confirmed it is in talks with fellow major miner Rio Tinto to effect a merger that could create the world’s largest mining company at a combined market value of... 

Rio Tinto Group is open to retaining Glencore Plc’s massive coal business if merger talks between the two companies are successful, according to people familiar with the matter. The move would... 

TSX-V-, OTCQX- and Frankfurt-listed Surge Copper Corp has completed its 2025 multidisciplinary drilling and field programme at its Berg project in central British Columbia, Canada, marking a key... 

Goldman Sachs raised its copper price forecast for the first half of 2026 to $12 750 a metric ton from $11 525 a ton on Thursday, citing a scarcity premium amid limited inventory coverage outside... 

The proposed merger of London-listed miner Anglo American and Canada's Teck Resources is heading for antitrust clearance in Europe after EU regulators signalled the absence of competition concerns,... 

The Trump administration and US Congress are launching a plan this week to overturn former President Joe Biden's mining ban in northern Minnesota and prevent future administrations from taking... 

Glencore and Rio Tinto, said late on Thursday they were in early buyout talks that could potentially create the world's largest mining company with a combined market value of nearly $207-billion.... 

Ivanhoe Mines has produced the first copper anodes at its direct-to-blister copper smelter at the Kamoa-Kakula complex. 

The project has secured a $753-million financing package. 

Kefi Gold and Copper has reached key milestones towards commissioning the project. 

TSX-listed Troilus Mining Corp has reported that it achieved major technical, regulatory, organisational and financing milestones required to advance the company’s flagship Troilus copper/gold... 

London-listed Central Asia Metals has reported “excellent” production results at its Kounrad dump-leach, solvent extraction-electrowinning copper operation, in Kazakhstan, for the fourth quarter of... 

Given the state of the world politically, economically, financially and socially, the gold bull market is expected to continue in the long run, says Jeffrey Christian of New York-based CPM Group.... 

A workers' strike at Capstone Copper's Mantoverde mine in northern Chile will continue after negotiations between the company and the union failed, the union said on Wednesday. The union in a... 

Growth in the artificial intelligence and defence sectors will boost global copper demand 50% by 2040, but supplies are expected to fall short by more than 10-million metric tons annually without... 

ASX-listed Askari Metals has successfully repaid, in full, its convertible note facility with Lawson Mining, as well as the remaining balance of the Series B Redeemable Notes, leaving it debt-free,... 

TSX-V-listed Peruvian Metals’ 80%-owned Aguila Norte processing plant, in northern Peru, processed a yearly record of 36 616 t of third-party mineral during 2025, an 8% increase year-on-year.... 

TSX-V-listed Pacific Bay Minerals (PBM) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Aurwest Resources Corporation whereby Aurwest can earn a 50% interest in the company's wholly-owned Weaver gold... 

Canadian gold and copper miner Aura Minerals has reported that it has received the construction licence and has begun early works for the development of the Era Dorada gold project, in Guatemala,... 

TSX-V-, Frankfurt- and OTCQB-listed NevGold has reported positive results from its Phase I pit sampling programme at the Limo Butte project, in Nevada, in the US, confirming consistent antimony and... 

TSX-V-listed Koryx Copper has agreed to a bought deal private placement offering of 10.21-million common shares at a price of C$2.45 a piece for aggregate gross proceeds of C$25-million to advance... 

TSX-V and Aim-listed Galantas Gold on January 6 entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire a 100% ownership interest in the Andacollo Oro gold project, in the Coquimbo region of central... 

Australian shares rose on Wednesday, with miners leading gains on strong commodity prices, while consumer prices increased by less than forecast in November in a sign that inflation may be cooling...