WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., has introduced a bill to ban copper-nickel mining on nearly a quarter-million acres of federal land in the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — President Donald Trump is taking a step toward granting the U.S. mining industry‘s biggest wishes by singling out one metal as a focus of his domestic minerals policy: copper. From ...

Mining isn’t known for innovation. For more than a century, we’ve extracted copper using the same process: dig, crush, grind, leach, repeat. Meanwhile, demand has exploded, fueled by EVs, AI ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — President Donald Trump is taking a step toward granting the U.S. mining industry’s biggest wishes by singling out one metal as a focus of his domestic minerals policy: copper.

India has acquired land in Zambia to explore copper and cobalt, signaling a significant move to secure its mineral supply chains in Africa. China currently leads in copper smelting and refining ...

Three meetings of investors in some of the world’s biggest mining companies over the next six days will lay the foundations for what could be a period of significant change in the world’s copper ...

The Sprott Junior Copper Miners ETF (NASDAQ:COPJ) posted a 109% gain in 2025, turning a $37 million fund into one of the year’s top performers. Investors who bought in early 2025 around $18 saw shares ...

Copper is not the most liquid base metal trading on the London Metals Exchange, nor is it the most expensive. However, copper has long been the leader of other nonferrous metals, establishing the ...