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Copper: mining protests in Peru threaten to block $53 billion investment
Peru, the world's second-largest copper producer, risks losing billions of dollars in mining investment if the government fails to defuse protests that are affecting the sector and denting production. In the past year since socialist President Pedro Castillo took...
Tin: supply is running dangerously low
Despite a strong recovery in production, the tin market is still dangerously short of supply. According to the International Tin Association (ITA), global refined tin production increased by 11 percent to 378,400 tons last year. But if production is up, so is demand....
Aluminum: inventories in warehouses hit record low
Stocks of readily available aluminum in London Metal Exchange warehouses fell to an all-time low, the latest evidence of the growing tension in the global metals market between tight supplies and the increasingly bleak outlook for industrial demand. Metal that had not...
Copper: Bhp targets to expand in Chile
According to BHP Group CEO Mike Henry, the company is intent on expanding operations in Chile, the world's top copper producer, under the "right conditions." The Andean nation's mining sector faces uncertainty over the drafting of a new constitution, which could lead...