Copper prices could break through $15,000 for the first time as soon as this week, analysts said on Tuesday, as investors position for another round of U.S. economic data and President Donald Trump keeps the market guessing on import tariffs.…

Aguila Norte maintains near-continuous full-capacity operations while high-recovery tailings tests suggest potential for future gold-silver reprocessing. Peruvian Metals (DUVNF) reports 2026 year-to-date operating performance and tailings sampling results from its 80%-owned Aguila Norte processing plant in Northern Peru. During July and…

Domestic Metals Corp. has launched a 9,000m diamond drill program at its Smart Creek Copper Porphyry Project in Montana, a joint venture with Rio Tinto, aiming to test high-grade porphyry copper and related mineralization identified in recent exploration. The program,…

People in the Tisdale district are anxious to learn more about the massive alumina discovery announced in January 2026 by the Saskatchewan government and Canadian Energy Metals (CEM). CEM estimates that approximately one-third of the world’s known supply of alumina,…

Copper has been knocked off the top of a stability ranking it had dominated for decades. Without altering the atoms directly bonded to the metal, a KAIST research team reversed the longstanding trend in which copper generally forms the most…

I’ve been writing for more than a decade and a half about a broad category of metals often nowadays dubbed “strategic” because they are crucial to high-tech applications such as solar photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, flat screens, semiconductors,…

When two Oglala Lakota scouts heard drilling was expected to begin on Pe’ Sla, the sacred prairie in the Black Hills of South Dakota, they set out on back trails. They needed to find out where. That’s when they saw a…

Otavio (Tavi) Costa, founder and CEO of Azuria Capital, argued that mining can be the least expensive way to invest in artificial intelligence as the sector gains more attention from sovereign institutions, governments and investors. “Institutions turn from ‘we don’t…