The copper price is likely to finish 2021 lower than its current level. However, they could yet see some further gains in the year, industry watchers told MetalMiner.

Research agency Fitch Solutions expects production, capital expenditure (capex) and profitability in the mining industry to improve this year as commodity prices are soaring, while economies are recovering and vaccines are rolled out.

When US President Joe Biden announced a $2-trillion Bill on March 31, becoming known as his infrastructure plan, it made commodity research company Fast markets, for one, excited about the opportunities it may hold for metals.

Greenpeace protested against deep-sea mining in the Pacific on Monday, with the environmental organisation's Rainbow Warrior boat trailing a ship doing research for DeepGreen, a company which plans to mine the seabed for battery metals.

South Africa is playing an important role in the ‘hydrogen economy’ as the country targets clean and reliable alternative energy sources, Mineral Resources and Energy MinisterGwede Mantashe said on Wednesday.

Mining consultancy AmaranthCX has published an electronic South African Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Map, which includes the boundaries of 53 mining and prospecting rights areas across the western, eastern and northern limbs of the Bushveld Complex.

Mining production decreased by 6.2% year-on-year in January, with the largest negative contributors being platinum group metals (PGMs), coal and gold, according to the latest Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) report.

While there is growing momentum across the world around investment in hydrogen and the related import and export value chains, management consulting company Kearney MD Romain Debarrewarns that there is still a lack of supply and demand for the hydrogen economy...