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Copper Weekly Brief — Week Ending 31 July 2026

      Copper remained elevated through the week ending 31 July, supported by tight mine supply, constrained concentrate availability and resilient long-term demand linked to electrification, grid investment and…

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Copper Weekly Brief — Week Ending 24 July 2026

  Copper ended the week near historically high levels as tight mine supply, falling exchange stocks outside the United States and resilient electrification demand continued to support the market. Against…

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Hillgrove Resources gains approval to start Emily Star

ASX-listed Hillgrove Resources has garnered board approval for the start of development at Emily Star as the third underground mining front of the Kanmantoo copper mine, in South Australia.   The development requires between $20-million and $22-million of…

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China’s Top Solar Firm Makes Switch from Silver to Copper

China’s biggest solar maker, LONGi Green Energy, has started mass production of solar cells that replace silver with copper at a new plant in Shaanxi — a key step in…

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The Copper Supply Crisis

June 22, 2021 · General, John’s Blog, Mining

The CRU Group just told an international seminar that copper supply is facing a nearly 6M tonne shortfall. Filling it, they say, will be tough. Erik Heimlich, principal copper analyst at CRU Group, told the June Navigating the Green Revolution in Base Metals seminar, the world will see the supply gap opening up from the […]

Copper Shines In South Australia Mining Boom

June 10, 2021 · General, Mining

South Australia’s mineral resource production for the 2020 calendar year breached the $7B mark, up from $6.9B in 2019, and the second-highest year on record behind the $7.312B produced in 2014.   According to the LEAD newspaper, Copper continued to be the state’s largest contributor in 2020 with $2.429B worth of production. “This included $1.35B […]

Unlocking Copper In Mine Waste

May 27, 2021 · General, Mining

43 million tonnes of copper has been mined but never processed over the last decade, trapped in mine waste from Australia to America. But that might be about to change. The lost copper  has been too difficult to extract using conventional mining methods, but if extracted could help overcome a looming shortage as the world […]

Mining Water Technologies

May 18, 2021 · General, John’s Blog, Mining

Two years ago consultancy group Wood Mackenzie predicted copper demand would keep rising, warning that water use at mines would also soar, with all the costs and problems that entails. It’s the sort of threat that is urging mines right around the world to find more sustainable, efficient ways to use water. And it’s the […]

No Digging Copper Mines?

May 7, 2021 · General, John’s Blog, Mining

I keep getting amazed at the innovation I’m seeing around copper these days, with a recent breakthrough boosting efforts to rethink conventional mining. A new “key-hole surgery” method to extract copper from the earth without first digging it up could be revolutionary by not being actually groundbreaking. It speaks to the power of smart partnerships […]

Striking Copper Tower For Russia

May 3, 2021 · General, Mining

World renowned architects Foster + Partners have designed a “copper tower” in the city of Yekaterinburg for the Russian Copper Company (RCC), one of the country’s biggest copper mining companies. Overlooking the Iset River in the centre of the city in central Russia, the 15-storey office block will be RCC’s headquarters and the first completed […]

Newmont launches Robot Trucks

April 20, 2021 · General, Mining

Gold and copper miner Newmont has started production use of an autonomous haul truck fleet at its Boddington in Western Australia. Newmont said it is the first gold mining company to use autonomous haulage system (AHS) technology in an open pit mine. The announcement comes as the company said it had hit a milestone in […]

1OM More Tonnes Of Copper In A Decade?

March 30, 2021 · General, Mining

The world may need 10 million tonnes more copper to meet demand in just 10 years says new snapshots from global resource and market analysts including  Bloomberg Intelligence. The copper industry needs to spend upwards of $100B to close what could be an annual supply deficit of 4.7M metric tons by 2030 as the clean […]

“Responsible Copper” Is Here

March 27, 2021 · General, Mining

  The ‘Copper Mark’ seal means copper produced to meet the highest standards and that’s about to be a big deal says John Fennell. Plumbers and home owners may not think much about the copper pipes they’re using apart from price and quality, but that’s about to change. A new standard called “Copper Mark” is […]

NSW $750M Green Mining Plan

March 26, 2021 · General, John’s Blog, Mining

Mining in New South Wales—Australia’sbiggest economy—looks set to benefit from a $750M plan to cut carbon emissions by just over a third by 2030. The new money was announced this week by NSW Environment Minister, Matt Kean, who said he wanted to deliver a “clean industrial revolution”. The money will be spent over the next […]

Water And Copper Mining

March 2, 2021 · General, John’s Blog, Mining

Water is the first theme being tackled by the Zero Emission Copper Mine of the Future project and results of the ‘deep tech dive’ due mid 2021.  The Technology Roadmap on the Zero Emission Copper Mine of the Future (ZECMotF) launched last year highlighted 5 emission themes—material movement, minerals processing , discovery, ventilation and water.  […]

OZ Minerals “Think and Act Differently”

February 19, 2021 · General, John’s Blog, Mining

Ingenious Extraction is OZ Minerals first ‘Think and Act Differently’ incubator challenge.  This is a challenge focused on finding new ways to extract metals like copper, gold, silver and cobalt from their concentrates.  OZ are aiming at producing products with a very small environmental footprint while creating as much value as they can for all […]

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Featured

Copper Weekly Brief — Week Ending 31 July 2026

      Copper remained elevated through the week ending 31 July, supported by tight mine supply, constrained concentrate availability…

Read More

Copper Weekly Brief — Week Ending 24 July 2026

  Copper ended the week near historically high levels as tight mine supply, falling exchange stocks outside the United States…

Read More

Hillgrove Resources gains approval to start Emily Star

ASX-listed Hillgrove Resources has garnered board approval for the start of development at Emily Star as the third underground mining front of the Kanmantoo copper mine, in South…

Read More

China’s Top Solar Firm Makes Switch from Silver to Copper

China’s biggest solar maker, LONGi Green Energy, has started mass production of solar cells that replace silver with copper at…

Read More

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