The copper market may need to rethink its bull narrative of constrained supply and worry more about weakening demand, judging ...

Surging prices for gold and other byproducts are keeping China's copper smelters afloat and could fend off significant ...

with a conventional flotation concentrator producing copper concentrate and molybdenum concentrate, with an expansion of the processing facility to include a copper concentrate leach facility in ...

and flotation of copper ore to produce copper and molybdenum concentrates; smelting of copper concentrates to produce blister and anode copper; refining of anode copper to produce copper cathodes ...

Meanwhile, US industry players have proposed alternatives to import tariffs, such as export controls on copper concentrate and scrap metal, to encourage domestic production, reported Bloomberg. Rio ...

The Metso Cu POX process is a hydrometallurgical method for the treatment of copper sulfide concentrates at lower capacities which aims to maximise copper recovery while also reducing ...

have been hit by tight copper concentrate supply due to rising smelting capacity. The scramble for the raw material can be seen in the negative level of spot treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs).

Mining will continue to drive growth in 2025 and 2026, particularly as copper concentrate production at the Oyu Tolgoi mine ramps up further. The agriculture sector, meanwhile, is expected to recover ...

China has kept adding copper processing capacity despite the scarcity of ore from mines around the world. That’s led to a collapse in fees to negative levels, which has left smelters needing to pay to ...

Japan Bank for International Cooperation ( JBIC ) has signed a US$466 million loan agreement with Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile ( Codelco ) to enable Japanese manufacturers to import copper ...