It was like holding up a collapsing tower]Over the past three years, as China's smelting capacity for primary smelting has been concentratedly commissioned, year-end negotiations between Chinese ...

Copper smelting - a critical process in metal production - often generates slag, which contains valuable metals. This slag has historically been thrown away, causing harm to the environment and ...

LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Global supply chains are already reeling from the impact of China's rare earth export controls, but an even bigger critical minerals threat is looming. Western metal ...

The world is heading toward a severe copper deficit as rising demand collides with slow mine development and expanding Chinese dominance, prompting a global race to build new copper supply chains.

Still Bright hopes its chemical process could help replace polluting copper smelters. Demand for copper is surging, as is pollution from its dirty production processes. The founders of one startup, ...

Xstrata Copper’s recycling business announces plans to double electronic scrap recycling capacity at the Horne smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. When the project is complete, the smelter will have the ...

As new secondary copper smelting and refining capacity ramps up in the U.S., more transparency will be required of scrap suppliers, according to two panelists at the Recycled Materials Association ...

At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...

SINGAPORE, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The Chinese copper scrap market is expected to remain tight as the pandemic and global economic downturn worsen an already limited supply caused by global trade ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Xstrata Copper said on Wednesday it plans to double the electronic scrap recycling capacity at its Horne smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, to 100,000 tonnes a year by January 2010.