Base Metals

Anglo American's dealings with the world's top two copper nations producing - Peru and Chile - took a turn for the better.

VEDANTA brought forward a planned annual shutdown of its Skorpion Zinc facilities in Namibia following a two-week strike by contractors employed by Basil Read, the...

KATANGA Mining, a unit of UK-listed mining and marketing group, Glencore, would resume exports and sales of limited quantity cobalt from its Kamoto project...

First Quantum's Zambia mine is hit by power outage, costing the largest single mine in the country $10m a day.

First Quantum Minerals has been forced to stop work on the Kolwezi project in the Democratic Republic of Congo and it seems a legal battle is looming.

Xstrata has signed a deal with Peru giving it rights to start building its $4.2bn Las Bambas copper mine.

Zambia has lifted a ban on metal exports just two days after imposing it to sort out irregularities and increase transparency, says a minerals ministry official.

Copper mines in Chile are slowly restarting after an earthquake in the South American country. LME copper prices are at their highest since 20 January.

UGANDA is hoping to re-open a copper mine last operated in the Seventies under the leadership of dictator, Idi Amin Dada, said Reuters citing Evelyn...

Gamsberg is low-grade and contaminated, but Vedanta has 'cracked' the issue of manganese contamination, says Africa base metals CEO, Kishore Kumar.