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Track the pulse of the global copper industry with Skillings. This category brings you authoritative reporting on copper mining projects, exploration updates, pricing shifts, smelting developments, and infrastructure demand. As a critical metal for electrification, EVs, and clean energy grids, copper’s role in the green economy is expanding fast—Skillings keeps you informed, competitive, and ahead of market trends.

Base Metals • Oct 11, 2022

Possible Government Intervention at New Copper

Anglo American expressed concern about possible delays at its new Quellaveco mine in the Peruvian Andes on October 7, 2022. The development came after the Peruvian…

Base Metals • Aug 25, 2022

Capstone Mining: Recent project developments

Capstone Mining is a well-known producer of copper and silver. Their mines are located in the US, Mexico, and Chile. The Arizona-based Pinto Valley has been…

Base Metals • Aug 9, 2022

Copper price: on the road to recovery

Copper prices are expected to rise by the end of 2022 at an average of 9,570 USD per Ton, 9,580 USD per Ton by 2023, and…

Base Metals • May 11, 2022

What’s slowing down the world’s copper production?

Global phenomenon and innovations are keeping the copper industry afloat amid the international crisis, particularly with the rising demand for electric vehicles, limited copper production, and…

Base Metals • Mar 28, 2022

Ivanhoe’s Kamoa-Kakula concentrator plant

The world's fastest-growing and highest-grade major copper mining complex Kamoa-Kakula announced that it is ready to start the hot commissioning of its Phase 2, 3.8-million-tonne-per annum…

Copper • Dec 20, 2021

Bacteria killed 100 times faster by new copper

Researchers from RMIT University and CSIRO, Australia's national research agency, have invented a copper surface that kills bacteria 100 times faster and more effectively than conventional…

Copper • Dec 15, 2021

World Copper Announces Approval by Cardero

World Copper Ltd. (“World Copper” or the “Company“; TSXV: WCU, OTCQB: WCUFF) announces that Cardero Resource Corp. (“Cardero“) shareholders have approved all matters voted on at…

Copper • Sep 13, 2021

Copper mining is possible in dormant volcanoes?

Digging deep wells beneath dormant volcanoes to suck out the metal-containing fluids trapped beneath them, according to Oxford scientists, is a more sustainable method to copper…

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