A widening demand-supply gap in the copper market is driving innovations to help miners go deeper, and further, than before.

Just as steel made from Minnesota’s iron ore powered the U.S. military to victory during World War II, supporters of copper-nickel mining in the state say the industry could help defeat another ...

Utah’s second largest copper mine after Kennecott is seeking permits for an experimental method of extraction involving pumping diluted sulfuric acid underground that could potentially extend ...

Chile’s copper industry is a hybrid. Codelco, the state mining firm, competes with private ones. In the past Codelco has suffered from a lack of investment, but that is improving.

As a historical curiosity, the Chinese were probably the first to use solution mining to produce copper by 907 A.D/, and perhaps as early as 177 B.C. ([3], [6], [7]) In the 1970s, ISR was introduced ...

Global copper mine production is set to expand by 7.8% year-on-year this year as a result of multiple new projects coming online and the low-base effects owing to Covid lockdowns having cut output ...

Extraction in open-pit mines begins with typical hard-rock mining methods, like blasting. Ore-bearing rock is loaded 200 to 300 tonnes at a time by enormous loaders and shovels into mammoth haul ...

Paratus Zambia country manager Marius van Vuuren tells Mining Weekly that the project, which entailed the installation of 17.5 km of All-Dielectric Self-Supporting aerial fibre, was completed in ...

"BHP’s Copper SA unveils $972m logistics solution with Aurizon" was originally created and published by Mining Technology, a GlobalData owned brand.. The information on this site has been ...

In 2020, the mining company destroyed Juukan Gorge, a 46,000 year-old Aboriginal heritage site in Australia. Rio Tinto’s mining of copper and gold in the Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia have also ...

Penning a report called Copper Mining and Vehicle Electrification, Professors Lawrence M. Cathles and Adam C. Simon claim that a key mineral in EV production, copper, isn't being mined at a strong ...