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 ...

The smelter produced the first anodes in December 2025, approximately five weeks after the start of its heat-up process.

The ramp-up of the Kamoa-Kakula copper smelter will continue throughout 2026, with completion expected towards year-end.

Copper smelting is an intricate high‐temperature process that converts copper concentrates into purer metallic copper through a series of chemical and thermal reactions. Central to modern smelting ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China, the world's biggest copper smelter, is studying ways to strengthen regulation on the expansion of smelting capacity, a state news outlet said on Thursday, as record low ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late 1950s, the Kvemo Bolnisi workshop was considered to be one of the ...

The International Copper Study Group says copper production increased in the first half of 2025, and London-based Earth-i says the trend continues. Earth-i, in a late September press release, says ...

LONDON, May 5 (Reuters) - Global copper smelting activity slid in April to the lowest level in two years as Chinese operations shut for maintenance and plants in North America slowed down, data from ...

LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Global copper smelting activity rebounded slightly in November, but remained below average due to sluggish growth in top refined copper producer China, data from satellite ...

LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - Spain's Atlantic Copper, part of Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. , told Reuters on Tuesday spot market deals to smelt copper concentrate into metal had recently been ...