Chile's state-owned copper mining giant Codelco on Wednesday shut down its Ventanas copper smelter after decades of polluting Quintero Bay with toxic gases and turning it, along with 15 other ...

Zambia-based Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a unit of UK-based miner Vedanta Resources, has announced a comprehensive refurbishment of its smelter as part of a broader initiative to enhance ...

Some of the drop stems from smelter overcapacity in China. Back in September 2023, the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association warned of the risks of an overly expanded sector.

Australia's biggest aluminium smelter is in crisis talks with the federal and state governments to continue operating as crippling electricity bills threaten 6,000 jobs. Tomago, which is majority ...

Copper miner Freeport Indonesia expects operations of its $3.7 billion Manyar smelter in East Java to ramp up in the third quarter of next year after being halted by a fire in October, an official ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Global miner Rio Tinto is in talks with Australian federal and state governments about a multibillion-dollar bailout for its struggling Tomago aluminium smelter in New South ...

Merdeka Battery Materials, backed by Indonesian billionaires Garibaldi Thohir and Edwin Soeryadjaya, has signed an agreement to build a $1.8 billion nickel smelter in Sulawesi, doubling down on ...

Shanna Lewis/KRCC News Piles of slag rock was left behind in a ravine in Pueblo when the former Colorado Smelter shut down more than a century ago. (May 15, 2023) The EPA has tested soil around ...