THE Canadian and Quebec governments are working to prevent the closure of Canada’s only copper smelter after Glencore threatened to shut the facility unless a deal can be reached over new ...

SHARES in Exxaro Resources ran to a three year high this week and were not far short of their five-year high, reached in 2022. That was shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an event that sent ...

THE Democratic Republic of Congo has signed an agreement with China to deepen cooperation in its mining sector, as Beijing moves to consolidate its already dominant position in one of the world’s most ...

INDIAN resources conglomerate Vedanta will be broken up into five separately listed companies early next month, said the Financial Times. Citing Vedanta founder and chair Anil Agarwal the newspaper ...

THE US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is converting a $31m loan to Australian graphite producer Syrah ...

WHEN it comes to BEE sceptics, there are few more vociferous than Moeletsi Mbeki, a man who, as the son of Govan Mbeki and ...

CHILE’S antitrust regulator has approved the joint mining plan between state copper producer Codelco and Anglo American at the Andina-Los Bronces project in the Andes mountains of central Chile, ...

COAL contract negotiations could become “more strained” owing to energy security concerns even as the same worry is forcing ...

RIO Tinto has moved closer to opening one of the world’s largest copper mines in Arizona after winning a protracted legal battle over land rights, though the company has signalled it may need to ...

GLENCORE has given Eskom less than a week to accept revised terms on a power discount deal that would keep its South African ferrochrome smelters running and protect thousands of workers from ...

IRON ore miners face billions of dollars in additional fuel costs as diesel prices soar following the near-closure of the ...

KENMARE Resources suspended the final dividend and unveiled plans to retrench employees as weak prices amid a capital ...