Smelting

China resumed sulphuric acid exports to Chile in September after a three-month halt, with shipments to the world's largest copper producer accounting for nearly all of the month's exports, customs... 

Freeport-McMoRan is betting a new chemical compound can help it reach an ambitious target of extracting 800-million pounds of copper from waste rock each year and expand production beyond... 

Reduction of 3 000-equivalent trucks on the road, a 70.5 MWh decrease in smelting electricity consumption, a 70 000 t cut in smelting CO2 emissions, and a R203-million annual cost saving, which... 

Reduction of 3 000-equivalent trucks on the road, a 70.5 MWh decrease in smelting electricity consumption, a 70 000 t cut in smelting CO2 emissions, and a R203-million annual cost saving, which... 

Another year of mine underperformance, record-low smelter treatment terms and a scramble for metal on the London Metal Exchange (LME). If you're thinking this is a description of the copper market,... 

Following the start of a drilling campaign for metallurgical testwork purposes at its Waterberg project, platinum and palladium developer Platinum Group Metals announced in its third quarter 2026... 

New South African smelting technology that uses 70% less electricity has reached the commercialisation phase. Domestically advanced ultra-high-dense-media-separation processing is poised to... 

The Indonesian government will grant additional nickel ore production quotas selectively and only to smelters that are running low on raw materials, an industry association said on Thursday, as the... 

China's refined copper output in August will post an annual decline for a second straight month, constrained by an acute shortage of feedstocks, State-backed research house Antaike said on... 

Ivanhoe Mines has tightened 2026 production guidance to between 290 000 t and 310 000 t of copper in anode, blister or saleable slag concentrate, from 290 000 t to 330 000 t. 

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses the new South African smelting technology that uses 70% less electricity; Bokoni and Nkomati being poised to unlock significant long-term value for... 

TSX-listed Meridian Mining has reported that its smelter tests have delivered high-grade and high-quality blister copper, highlighting that the laboratory-scale smelting and converting tests... 

President Donald Trump said on Monday he signed a proclamation to adjust tariffs on imports of aluminum into the US, adding the domestic production of primary aluminum in the US was currently... 

Ivanhoe Mines has maintained 2026 production guidance at 290 000 t to 330 000 t of copper in anode or blister, and 2027 guidance at 380 000 t to 420 000 t. 

Multinational mining company BHP has awarded a design and supply contract to China Nerin Engineering for key processing facilities as part of the proposed smelter and refinery expansion in South... 

Indonesia's PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara, the main unit of Jakarta-listed PT Amman Mineral Internasional, aims to double its copper cathode output this year after it finished ramping up... 

TSX- and NYSE-listed Teck Resources, Natural Resources Canada and Canada Growth Fund (CGF) have signed a strategic investment agreement to support expanding production capacity for germanium,... 

Manganese ferroalloys producer Transalloys has fully stopped its ferroalloys production in Mpumalanga on July 1, with no indication of when operations may resume. The company highlights that the... 

China's exports of sulphuric acid to Chile dwindled to zero in March, Chinese customs data show, leaving the world's top copper producing nation facing a squeeze on supplies of the chemical used to...