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Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) is boosting its investment in cobalt and copper in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with plans to revamp its Comide operations and build a new beneficiation plant near its Metalkol RTR site, the company said on Friday October 20. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freeport-McMoRan is working to claw back payments its Indonesian unit PT-FI made to the country's government in order to export copper concentrates since July, the company said on Thursday October 19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The price of copper and capital costs will be central to Freeport-McMoRan's decision on the timing of an expansion at its Bagdad copper operation in the US state of Arizona, the president of the US producer told Fastmarkets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The short-term outlook for copper is being understandably muted by investors' macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns despite an ongoing positive story for the longer term, the chairman of Chilean state-owned copper producer Codelco said in an interview. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Codelco is currently negotiating with fellow Chilean miner Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) to create a lithium production partnership, the chairman of the state-owned copper producer told Fastmarkets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Codelco expects to begin to gradually increase its copper production following several years of declining output, with a roughly 30% rise from current levels expected by 2030, the chairman of Chile's state-owned copper company told Fastmarkets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

German copper producer Aurubis is maintaining a premium of $228 per tonne for 2024 for its European clients, the company said on Thursday October 5 in a memo to customers seen by Fastmarkets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freeport-McMoRan expects to resume copper exports from its Indonesian operations at the end of July, once it receives a new export license, a move which would further loosen the concentrates market, Fastmarkets has heard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freeport-McMoRan's Morenci complex in the US is the main proving ground for the copper producer's efforts to pursue the use of new technology to enhance the recovery of materials from its existing leach operations, the company's president has said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deferrals, delays and cost overruns make project execution the trickiest challenge facing Codelco and the global mining sector, Codelco chairman Maximo Pacheco said. Codelco is Chile's state-run copper producer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The copper industry is about to be shaken up, but it does not resolve the anticipated supply shortfall in the long run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current copper prices are appropriate, based on existing supply-demand fundamentals, the chief executive officer of Chilean miner Antofagasta has said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The copper market is well-supplied from the perspective of a European custom-smelter, with ample availability of concentrates and recycling inputs, the chief executive officer of Germany' Aurubis, Roland Harings said to Fastmarkets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is still not enough awareness among policymakers that the world needs more copper to achieve energy transition's ambitious targets, Trafigura's chief executive officer Jeremy Weir said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copper demand so far has been unaffected by uncertain macroeconomic outlook, but volatility and issues around financing need to be monitored, Patricio Hidalgo, chief executive officer of Anglo American Chile, says. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The copper concentrates market is relatively balanced with ongoing risk of supply disruptions to global operations, Anglo American Chile chief executive officer Patricio Hidalgo said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A subsidiary of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s state-owned Gécamines has secured financing to build a new hydro-metallurgical unit which will produce copper cathodes, cobalt hydroxide, a germanium precipitate, silver concentrate and zinc oxides from August, the company said on Tuesday April 11. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copper producer Codelco intends to launch a commercial platform for its refined copper sales and has selected Waybridge as its partner. This will be the first step toward the Chilean company's goal of digitizing its supply chain, its chief commercial officer said on Thursday March 23. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

First Quantum Minerals is to resume shipments of copper concentrate from its Cobre Panamá mine in the next several days, adding some relief to a tight concentrates market, the company said on Wednesday March 8. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For the past few years, the ambition of electrifying transportation and energy storage while reducing emissions to net-zero has focused on securing the critical raw materials like lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper and aluminium that are necessary to achieve these goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copper ore processing operations at the Cobre Panamá mine have been suspended after its owner, a unit of First Quantum Minerals, failed to resolve a dispute with the government, adding pressure to an already constrained copper concentrate market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freeport-McMoRan has reduced its guidance figure for first-quarter copper sales volumes after heavy rainfall and landslides disrupted operations at the giant Grasberg mine in the central Indonesian province of Papua over the weekend, the company said on Sunday February 12. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

First Quantum Minerals has lost the right to load copper concentrate shipments from its Cobre Panamá operations, a situation that could force the copper mine to be closed if loading operations do not resume by mid-February, the company said on Monday February 6. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Sentinel open pit copper mine in Zambia has been suspended following a fatality at the site, First Quantum Minerals said on Thursday February 2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unrest in Peru has so far had "limited impact" on Freeport-McMoRan's Cerro Verde operations, but this could change if the situation persists, the US copper producer said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Physical copper market conditions are strong and customer demand remains healthy, with market conditions having improved starting toward the end of 2022, according to US copper producer Freeport-McMoRan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PT-Freeport Indonesia (PT-FI) is preparing to renew its special mining license (IUPK) in order to continue to export copper concentrate through the year, shareholder Freeport-McMoRan said on Wednesday January 25. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mining industry needs to focus more on exploration to find new sources of raw materials such as copper or it will fail to meet future consumption requirements, according to the chief executive officer of Barrick Gold. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Reko Diq project in Pakistan has received the green light after completing the country's necessary legal processes, further advancing one of the largest undeveloped copper projects in the world, the project owner Barrick Gold Corporation said on Thursday December 15. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As demand for critical minerals such as copper and cobalt rises, Trafigura has closed a $600-million loan facility that will be used to develop two cobalt-copper operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the company said on Monday November 21. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copper producer Codelco is in the process of building a mining company with operations to take it through the next several decades, the company's chairman said on Tuesday October 25. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taseko Mines has received a draft permit for the Florence Copper project in Arizona, United States, pushing the mine closer to construction after eight years of permitting to date, the Canada-based company said on Monday August 15. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

US copper producer, Freeport-McMoRan is planning an expansion to double the concentrator capacity of its Bagdad operation in northwest Arizona, part of its plan to increase its footprint in the United States, the company said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copper industry veteran Klaus Tabbert, whose career included more than 20 years at Metallgesellschaft AG (MG) and more than 40 years in the sector, has died. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China Minmetals, Zijin Mining and BHP have concluded a two-step copper concentrate transaction on MineHub Technologies Inc's blockchain-based platform, MineHub said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is becoming increasingly difficult to get permits or security of tenure for copper mine projects, a situation that must change if the world is to meet the goals of the energy transition, the chief executive officer of German smelter Aurubis has said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copper prices are expected to stay volatile and at current elevated levels for the time being, although the likelihood of slowing global growth in the future will see prices revert to lower levels, the chief executive officer of Chilean miner Antofagasta said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vale plans to expand its copper production to more than 450,000 tonnes per year in the next five years, a senior company executive has said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The energy transition represents a great opportunity for the copper industry, but it also poses a significant challenge, the chief executive officer of Chilean miner Codelco has said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the next 25 years, the world will need the equivalent of all the copper mined since the 1400s to meet the demands of the green energy transition, the chief operating officer of Rio Tinto's copper business has said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the world's large undeveloped copper and gold deposits just got put back on the project pipeline list. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Austrian copper recycler Montanwerke Brixlegg is now producing copper with a carbon footprint of 0.739 tonnes of carbon dioxide per tonne of copper cathode, the Austrian company has said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nickel and zinc have made it onto the finalized list of minerals considered to be critical to the economy of the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freeport-McMoRan expects to see a 12% jump in copper sales in 2022 following the completion of the transition to underground mining at its giant Grasberg mine in Indonesia, the Arizona, United States-based copper producer said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teck Resources Ltd has reached a new five-year collective agreement with union workers at its Highland Valley Copper (HVC) operations in British Columbia, Canada, averting a legal strike at the site, it said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sibanye-Stillwater has called off its deal to buy Brazilian companies Atlantic Nickel and Mineração Vale Verde (MVV) from Appian Capital Advisory after a geotechnical event at one of their operations, the company said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unionized workers at Highland Valley Copper (HVC) are to vote on recommendations for a new collective agreement proposed by mediators, which would avert a strike at the operations in British Columbia, Canada, its owner Teck Resources said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teck Resources has received a strike notice from a union representing workers at its Highland Valley Copper (HVC) operations in British Columbia, Canada, which could see industrial action begin as soon as Sunday January 16, the company said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nico Paraskevas, former Glencore head of copper marketing, and Kareem Barbir, a co-founding partner of Concord Resources, are joining Switzerland-based Open Mineral as a senior advisor and head of commercial respectively, the company said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]