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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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Chile’s arid Atacama landscape, where Capstone Copper is consolidating its Mantoverde-Santo Domingo district. Capstone Copper has completed its US$25 million all-share acquisition of the copper assets…
Copper concentrate supply is tightening as smelters compete for feedstock. Copper’s supply signal is no longer coming only from exchange inventories or mine guidance. It is…
Bauxite-bearing terrain in western Cape York near the Aurukun project area. Rio Tinto has agreed to acquire the Aurukun bauxite project in western Cape York, Queensland,…
Remote mineral exploration operations in Alaska. Image: Skillings Mining Intelligence Vizsla Copper Corp. has agreed to acquire Agnico Eagle’s Delta polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulphide project and…
Copper processing infrastructure at a large-scale smelting and refining operation. Copper touched a record $14,697 per metric ton on the London Metal Exchange on Sept. 8,…
Eldorado Gold’s Skouries project includes an open pit, underground mine and processing facilities on Greece’s Halkidiki Peninsula. Eldorado Gold has produced its first copper-gold concentrate at…
Chapada’s processing and mine infrastructure in Goiás, Brazil. Lundin Mining’s plan to integrate the Saúva copper-gold deposit with its Chapada mine in Goiás is becoming a…
Copper set another record in London trading, with three-month LME copper near US$14,533 per tonne and reports citing an intraday high of about US$14,624/t. The rally…
Remote copper exploration terrain in the Puna de Atacama highlands of Salta Province. Argentina’s copper pipeline is gaining strategic weight as prices remain elevated and major…
Capstone’s Mantoverde-Santo Domingo district in Chile’s Atacama Region is becoming a larger platform for copper exploration, processing and future mine development. Capstone Copper’s completed acquisition of…
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