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Copper industry executives to discuss market outlook at World Copper Conference

The conference regularly attracts 500 attendees from more than 40 countries; representing the key producers, consumers, traders, distributors, and end-users.

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Tianqi Lithium to name three directors to SQM board next month

The world’s No.3 producer of the metal used in electric vehicle batteries said the candidates will be “fair” and “responsible toward shareholders”.

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Rio Tinto may have found its next major copper mine in W. Australia

World’s second largest miner has confirmed an “exciting” copper find at its Winu project, in the Paterson Range in the East Pilbara.

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Europe’s push for EVs a boon to Savannah’s Portugal lithium project

The company is close to making a decision on developing Mina do Barroso mine, which could become the first European supplier of spodumene, a lithium-bearing mineral.

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Waterton steps up efforts to oust Hudbay Minerals’ CEO, board

Toronto-based private-equity firm Waterton Global Resource Management is pushing for an overhaul Hudbay Minerals’ board and the exit of the current chief executive, Alan Hair, over alleged “mismanagement.”

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BHP urges miners to create global body to oversee tailings dams

CEO Andrew Mackenzie said it was too early to say what impact the recent Vale tailings dam disaster will have on efforts to restart BHP and Vale’s jointly owned Samarco mine, shut since November 2015 after a dam collapse killed 19 people.

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