The British Anglo American and Canadian Teck Resources mining companies announced an agreement on one of the most significant ...

Historical records from Sumerian and Assyrian civilisations document copper exports from Oman to Mesopotamia, while numerous ...

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to step into a fight over a land transfer in Arizona that the Western Apache people say will destroy a sacred site in order to build a massive copper mine.

After years of controversy, the mining industry is experiencing a significant revival driven by increased demand for critical ...

Anglo American and Codelco have finalized an agreement to merge operations at their Los Bronces and Andina copper mines, aiming to unlock up to $5 billion in value and increase copper production by ...

Once that critical mineral is dug up, it will leave the Copper State entirely. Despite the six-decade project still not being ...

Archaeologists recently found an ancient copper workshop in the Sinai region of Egypt – the land tied to Moses and the Book of Exodus. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the ...

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.’s declaration of force majeure at its Grasberg mine in Indonesia — where two employees are dead and five missing after a massive mud flow — couldn’t have come at a worse time for ...

LONDON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Metals analysts are cutting their estimates of global copper supplies for this year and next after an accident at the giant Grasberg mine dramatically tightened the outlook ...

At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s teeming with invisible activity. Billions of microbes are hard at work ...

Copper prices extended gains on Thursday, building on a nearly 4% surge in the previous trading session, after U.S. miner Freeport-McMoRan declared force majeure on contracted supplies from its ...

Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) has upgraded its copper price forecasts, warning that the global supply squeeze is deeper and more persistent than previously thought. The combination of resilient demand, ...