HANOI/BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - Fees to process copper concentrate in China, which have plummeted to their lowest level in over a decade due to short supply, could recover in the second quarter ...

TUCSON, Arizona, December 04, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto has successfully produced the first copper from the Johnson Camp mine in Arizona using its Nuton ® Technology, marking a pivotal step ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan, Spain and South Korea issued a rare joint statement on Wednesday expressing deep concerns over tumbling copper treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs), warning both smelters ...

Copper smelting is an intricate high‐temperature process that converts copper concentrates into purer metallic copper through a series of chemical and thermal reactions. Central to modern smelting ...

Additional critical mineral process improvements for the Alberta Hydrometallurgical Facility The NICO Project consists of a planned mine and concentrator in the Northwest Territories (“NWT”) and a ...

Phoenix, Arizona--(Newsfile Corp. - December 4, 2025) - Gunnison Copper Corp. (TSX: GCU) (OTCQB: GCUMF) (FSE: 3XS0) ("Gunnison" or the "Company") announces that Rio Tinto has successfully produced the ...

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. said it has been forced to stop processing copper at its giant mine in Panama after the government blocked it from loading the metal at a port in the country. The move ...

At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...

Image credit: University of Queensland. Copper is a hugely important metal with a whole host of critical uses. Electrical wiring, plumbing and, more recently, renewable energies all depend on large ...

The copper content of power lines – plus the fact the metal makes up around 1% of the content of a standard silicon solar panel and around 40% of a rooftop PV system, thanks to its use in string ...

ByPeter Strozniak IBM's groundbreaking use of copper to manufacture a new generation of computer chips is expected to benefit the environment. IBM and the U.S. EPA recently reached an agreement over ...