Base Metals

UK-based private equity firm, Tembo Capital, has agreed to extend a $3.6m loan facility  to Orion Minerals by about four months to end-October. Orion Minerals...

COPPER is forecast to emerge from the economic fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in relatively good form, according to Bloomberg News which cited...

THE Zambian government is panicking. Despite a recent rally, the pandemic has accelerated the dramatic fall in copper prices, leading to a collapse in...

AN attempt by Zambia to strong-arm the privately-owned Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) into cutting tariffs may hurt the country's investment prospects, said Reuters citing...

HUAYOU Cobalt, China's biggest cobalt producer, will stop buying from individuals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) owing to pressure from customers and...

SOUTH Africa's state-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) were among the potential equity investors with whom Orion Minerals had...

A STRIKE at China Molybdenum’s Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM) was bought to an end after only a day on Sunday, said Reuters citing Willy Kitobo Samsoni,...

CANADIAN base metals development firm, Deep-South, said it could build an 86,000 ton a year copper cathode and sulphate mine in Namibia for $341m,...

KONKOLA Copper Mines (KCM) won an interim order from the High Court in Zambia preventing power supplier, Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) from cutting supply...

ORION Minerals has secured a $1m loan from Tembo Capital, a UK-based private equity firm that owns 25% in the base metals exploration firm. The loan...