Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials Corporation is considering “scaling down” copper concentrate processing at its Onahama Smelting and Refining facility in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture. This initiative ...

At least six smelters in China, the world's largest refined copper producer, have stepped up purchases of pyrite this year.

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 ...

A startup called Red Metals is trying to make better use of the copper discarded in old products. The world faces a looming copper shortage: By 2040, demand could grow by 50%, driven by everything ...

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, ...

BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Some Chinese smelters have agreed to process copper from Chilean miner Antofagasta for no charge, a record low for the industry, but the outcome was better than expected ...

America needs to get serious about copper. Our nation mines copper but ships it to China for processing, a supply chain failure that has become a national security vulnerability, because copper is ...

Copper oxide ores with high clay content and fine particle size distribution pose major challenges for conventional flotation. In this study, a low-grade copper ore (0.5% Cu) obtained from drill core ...

Chipmakers are relying on machine learning for electroplating and wafer cleaning at leading-edge process nodes, augmenting traditional fault detection/classification and statistical process control in ...

HANOI/BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - Fees to process copper concentrate in China, which have plummeted to their lowest level in over a decade due to short supply, could recover in the second quarter ...

Strong demand from data centers has emerged as a major factor in a record copper price, but some observers can see an end to the boom coming sooner than later ...

Copper is all around us. The metal is both ever-present and invisible in our world. Copper makes reading the words on this screen possible. And the global spread of artificial light, electric power ...