Stellantis, Rio Tinto raise bets on Argentina copper mining
Mining News Pro - Automaker Stellantis NV and miner Rio Tinto Group are upping their investments in a giant copper deposit in Argentina as the race for metals used in electric vehicles heats up.
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Responsible copper mining framework extended to nickel, zinc and molybdenum
Mining News Pro - Brülhart says smelters and refiners that have been audited are not included in this figure to eliminate the possibility of double counting as metal passes through the supply chain.
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Copper mining has a new champion in veteran Peruvian economist
Mining News Pro - Put the cautious optimism on display at Peru’s top mining event down to three main factors: easing pandemic restrictions, copper’s bright longer term outlook and a diminutive sexagenarian economist.
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Globally more is being spent on coal than copper mining
Mining News Pro - New data from Industrial Info Resources show 4,790 metals and minerals capital projects (including mining, processing and refining) with a combined investment value of $443 billion are currently under construction around the world. A further 10,586 projects are under active planning and engineering – for a combined total of $1.11 trillion.
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Top 10 largest copper mining companies in Q1 2022
Mining News Pro - Chile’s Codelco was the world’s largest copper mining company in Q1 2022 (based on attributable copper tonnes). Freeport-McMoRan solidified its second position in the ranking due to production increase at Grasberg.
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Chile’s climate scientist minister eyes tougher rules for top copper mining nation
Mining News Pro - Chile’s Environment Minister Maisa Rojas, a leading climate scientist with a PhD from Oxford who made the leap into politics this year, is on a mission to strengthen the Andean country’s environmental rules and hold mining firms to account.
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Chile’s climate scientist minister eyes tougher rules for top copper mining nation
Mining News Pro - Chile’s Environment Minister Maisa Rojas, a leading climate scientist with a PhD from Oxford who made the leap into politics this year, is on a mission to strengthen the Andean country’s environmental rules and hold mining firms to account.
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Fifth of Peru copper mining goes offline with more shutdowns likely
Mining News Pro - Sky-high metal prices and accelerating general inflation are fueling another up-tick in resource nationalism and social unrest in Peru, among the top suppliers of copper, zinc and silver.
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Politics turning against copper mining
Mining News Pro - The copper market has cooled since touching record levels above $10,000 a tonne in May, but longer-term fundamentals for the bellwether metal remain bullish thanks to a global effort to electrify transport and shift to renewable power generation.
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US EPA weighs Taseko copper mining process akin to fracking
Mining News Pro - Taseko Mines (TSE: TKO) wants to produce copper in Arizona using a process that evokes oilfield fracking, but first the company has to convince the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that it will not harm the state’s water supply.
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Biggest copper mining project in decades begins production
Mining News Pro - Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN) has begun producing copper concentrate at its Kamoa-Kakula project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) months ahead of schedule as the metal continues to trade close to all-time highs.
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Politics are turning against copper mining in top producer Chile
Mining News Pro - Chilean copper mining is facing its biggest regulatory threat since the industry took off more than three decades ago.
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Jetti Resources’ quest for copper mining’s holy grail
Mining News Pro - The mining industry knows all about the big copper conundrum.
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Copper mining is one of the largest industries in Chile
Mining News Agency - In a country like Chile, where lithium and copper resources abound, it is no surprise that mining is one of the largest industries. In fact, mining, manufacturing and oil and gas make up 35 percent of the country’s GDP. Within that, it is copper exploration and production that sits at the forefront of the country’s mining industry.
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