Base Metals

ORION Minerals is to raise $5.5m (R77.5m) to pay for further drilling at its zinc and copper prospect in South Africa's Northern Cape province. Exploration...

A DISPUTE between Vedanta Resources and Zambia's ZCCM-IH regarding their respective investments in Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) ought to be settled in terms of...

Barclays Capital expects copper prices to rise by around 10% from current levels, while gold prices are projected to climb above $2,000 an ounce by the third quarter.

Chambishi Metals, which shut owing to losses related to the global economic slowdown, would restart output later this week, its CEO said.

ORION Minerals CEO, Errol Smart, acknowledged the company could become a takeover target if it made a success of its Prieska zinc-copper project. "At some...

GLENCORE suffered the effects of a slump in the cobalt price and the under-performance of its African copper business which led it into a...

Russia's UC RUSAL, the world's biggest aluminium producer, plans to boost output and restart a mothballed plant after reporting a better-than-expected profit for the second half of 2009.

The acquisition of base-metals exploration firm, Kiwara by First Quantum Minerals is poised to go ahead after Kiwara's shareholders approved the deal.

ZAMBIA has appointed a legal firm to act as provisional liquidator of Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), the assets owned by Indian firm, Vedanta. Citing a...

Amnesty International has called on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to immediately withdraw its armed forces from the Tenke Fungurume...