If the United States re-imposes some tariffs on Canadian aluminum products, Canada will respond by slapping retaliatory tariffs on US goods, a government source said on Thursday.
"We will react very similarly to the last (time they imposed) tarif…
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Chile’s State-run miner Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, said on Thursday it would restart operations and projects it had suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, beginning next week.
The miner had been forced to delay several mine expa…
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Chile’s largest copper mines boosted output in June, according to government statistics released late on Tuesday, churning out more of the red metal even as the coronavirus outbreak hit its stride in the South American mining powerhouse.
The Chilean C…
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Albemarle, the world’s largest producer of lithium for electric vehicle batteries, warned on Wednesday that its third quarter sales and profit will dip as automakers produce fewer EVs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The warning came after the company…
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Transport delays from South Africa against a backdrop of increasingly robust Chinese demand have fuelled a price rally for cobalt hydroxide, used to make chemicals for electric vehicle batteries. Chinese cobalt refiners have moved to replenish stocks o…
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Iron-ore futures edged higher in see-saw trade on Wednesday, with both Singapore and Dalian benchmarks reversing early losses, supported by strong Chinese demand for the steelmaking ingredient and worries about supply.
Iron ore on China’s Dalian Commo…
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South Africa’s diamond industry, famed for sales the world over and supplying gems for the British crown jewels, is looking closer to home to revive its fortunes following the coronavirus slump. Even before the new virus triggered the Covid-19 pandemic…
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Peru, a top global metals exporter, saw its output of copper, gold and zinc nosedive in the first half of 2020, ravaged by restrictions put in place to curb the coronavirus outbreak, the government said on Tuesday.
The world’s No. 2 copper producer s…
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Russia produced 104.31 t of gold from January to May, up from 101.44 t during the same period in 2019, the finance ministry said on Tuesday.
The country also produced 355.30 t of silver during the first five months of the year, a figure lower than the…
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Democratic Republic of Congo is suspending the value-added tax (VAT) exemption on imports by mining companies in an effort to bolster state revenue, the budget minister said.
Jean-Baudouin Mayo told the finance minister to implement the government’s d…
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