Trouble brewing as Zambia mines minister calls for audits in effort...
ZAMBIA may conduct audits at all its mines in order to check for some of the breaches it has imputed to Konkola Copper Mines (KCM),...
DRC may invite investors to join it in funding state-owned cobalt...
PRIVATE capital might be invited to help finance the activities of a proposed state-owned company in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said Reuters...
Speculation mounts again Zambia miner First Quantum will be subject to...
SHARES in First Quantum Minerals moved as high as 5% on December 9 amid renewed speculation the Toronto-listed company could be the subject of...
First Quantum Minerals refutes Zambian tax claim
First Quantum Minerals - a Toronto-listed company mining copper in Zambia - does not expect the final value of the $8bn tax...
Japan smelters expect tough 2010 copper talks
Japanese smelters expect tough negotiations on 2010 copper processing fees as they face increased competition from refineries in China.
Vedanta “disturbed” by reports of overnight sulphur dioxide leak at KCM...
VEDANTA Resources said it was "disturbed" by reports of a sulphur dioxide leak at Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), the operation the Zambian government wants...
South32 content to bide time on Eskom power contract
SOUTH32, created from the unbundling of BHP Billiton’s non-core assets, delivered some pleasant surprises for investors in August, cutting costs $386m in its first...
Ivanhoe’s Friedland hits out at ‘fiction’ that mining copper in Chile...
BILLIONAIRE mining entrepreneur, Robert Friedland, put the boot into Chile and its established major copper mining groups.
Friedland, whose company Ivanhoe Mines is developing major...
Copper surges to 16 month high on strikes
Copper rose to a 16 month high on news that a strike had officially been called at Codelco's Chuquicamata, the world's second largest copper mine.