Russian giant copper project in talks to raise $1.25B

Xinjiang Xinxin to pull out all the stops to meet environmental regulations and get government go-ahead to build copper smelter.

As expected, First Quantum's 2010 metals output suffered from the forced closure of its Frontier Mine by the DRC Government in its ongoing dispute with the Canadian miner. Canada's First Quantum Minerals (FM.TO) full-year copper production fell to

Two Canadian miners, Inmet and Lundin, have agreed to an all-share merger that will create Canada’s second largest base and industrial metals […]

The environmental review has begun for the proposed Ajax copper-gold mine 10 km southwest of Kamloops, BC, Canada. The project is being […]

Chile’s state copper giant Codelco will invest over $16-billion between 2011-2015 and expects copper prices to remain strong in the long-term, the […]

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting a drop in copper on the LME for the fifth straight session, after reaching a record […]

The cash and stock deal will provide the Canadian miner with access to a major copper deposit in Peru BANGALORE (Reuters) - Canada's HudBay Minerals Inc (HBM.TO: Quote) agreed to buy Norsemont Mining Inc (NOM.TO: Quote) to gain access to a major copper

The group says the mine in British Columbia produced more than 90m pounds of copper in 2010 and that this number will increase once a bottleneck in the ore feed system is cleared Taseko Mines (TKO.TO: Quote) said on Wednesday that its Gibraltar mine in

US copper futures shed almost 2% as investors continued to sell out of the commodities complex NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. copper futures shed nearly 2 percent of their value Tuesday morning, extending a retreat from the previous session's record peak as