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  • Lithium$14,542/t−0.04%
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Base Metals

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Base metal mining covers the essential non-precious metals that power modern infrastructure, clean energy, and global industry. From copper and zinc to nickel and lead, these metals are critical to the supply chains of construction, manufacturing, and electric vehicles. This category offers breaking news, market analysis, production updates, and geopolitical insights tied to the base metals sector.

Track global pricing trends, explore major mining projects, and understand how evolving demand—especially from green technologies—is reshaping exploration and investment. Skillings delivers accurate, timely, and actionable intelligence to help professionals, investors, and analysts navigate the fast-moving world of base metal mining.

Whether you’re following nickel’s role in EV batteries, copper’s infrastructure boom, or zinc’s industrial rebound—this hub provides the authoritative coverage you need. Bookmark this page for your go-to source on base metal mining.

Base Metals • May 9, 2024

Mineral Resources Cancels Acquisition of

Mineral Resources (MinRes) has announced the termination of its planned acquisition of Poseidon Nickel’s Lake Johnston nickel concentrator and tenures in Western Australia, dealing a blow…

Base Metals • May 7, 2024

Copper 360 Accelerates Production

Jan Nelson-Led Company Surpasses Milestones, Reviving Northern Cape as a Copper Mining Hub Copper 360, a prominent copper mining company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s…

Base Metals • Apr 26, 2024

Wood Secures Major Contract with Antofagasta

Wood, a leading consulting and engineering firm, has clinched a significant contract with Antofagasta Minerals S.A (AMSA) for the expansion of its Nueva Centinela copper project…

Base Metals • Apr 8, 2024

First Quantum Minerals Raises Alarm Over

First Quantum Minerals, through its subsidiary Minera Panamá, has issued a communiqué highlighting the dangers associated with the long-term storage of copper concentrate at the Cobre…

Base Metals • Apr 4, 2024

Surge Copper Corp. Secures Strategic

Surge Copper Corp., a Canadian mineral exploration and development company, has announced a significant milestone in its financing strategy with the signing of a subscription agreement…

Base Metals • Apr 1, 2024

Jubilee Metals Group Expands Operations with

Jubilee Metals Group, a leading diversified metals processor, is making significant strides in its expansion efforts with the formation of a joint venture (JV) vehicle alongside…

Base Metals • Mar 28, 2024

DRDGOLD to determine economic viability of

Northern Cape copper enterprise Copper 360 introduced on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of expertise (MoU) with DRDGOLD’s Far West Gold Recoveries tailings retreatment…

Base Metals • Mar 26, 2024

Harmony’s Eva copper mine project in Australia

The copper mining task that Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed Harmony Gold is growing in Australia has been granted special ‘prescribed project’ repute in popularity of its social…

Base Metals • Feb 21, 2024

BHP weighs up nickel future

BHP chief govt officer Mike Henry said he foresees the nickel iciness extending to the give up of the decade, but that desire is on the…

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