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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.
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The Gaspé Copper project includes historic mine workings and areas targeted for resource expansion. Copper drilling by Osisko Metals (TSX: OM; OTCQX: OMZNF) has extended the…
Editorial view of a Turkish copper-gold mine and processing corridor. ACG Metals is paying up to US$7.85 million for a Turkish mining licence containing the Keşkek…
Indonesian nickel laterite mine and ferronickel processing complex. Indonesia’s decision to tighten nickel mining approvals has changed the market’s central question. The issue is no longer…
Copper mine and processing infrastructure in a large-scale U.S. operation. The White House has not decided whether to impose tariffs on refined copper, according to people…
Copper’s rally has reached a policy-driven inflection point. The metal climbed to a record near $14,854 per tonne on Sept. 9, according to Bloomberg and TradingKey,…
Diamond drilling at a copper-gold exploration site in British Columbia. Kodiak Copper Corp. reported its strongest-ever drill intersection at the Ketchan zone of the MPD copper-gold…
Furnaces and conveyors inside a ferronickel processing plant. The European Commission is preparing to issue a statement of objections to MMG’s proposed acquisition of Anglo American’s…
Dense rainforest surrounds the legacy Panguna copper mine site on Bougainville. Armed men attacked and set fire to a project camp at the Panguna copper mine…
Copper prices have retreated from a record near $14,854 per tonne reached on Sept. 9 as traders reassess the chances of U.S. tariffs on refined copper…
Brazilian nickel mine and processing infrastructure surrounded by lateritic terrain and forest. MMG’s proposed $500 million purchase of Anglo American’s Brazilian nickel assets is facing another…
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