In 2025, China's smelting and refining capacity grew, while the TC for copper concentrates continued to deteriorate. Against this backdrop, smelters were compelled to adjust their raw material mix, ...

Metals trader Trafigura and TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines’ Kamoa Copper business in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has successfully completed its first sale of low-carbon copper anodes, which is ...

Kamoa-Kakula smelter is Africa's largest copper smelter with a capacity of 500,000 tonnes of copper per annum Kamoa-Kakula 2026 sales set to exceed production as 20,000 tonnes of stockpiled copper in ...

Trader Trafigura has continued to break new ground in the mining sector with the first sale of low-carbon copper anodes from Africa. The initial cargo has been produced by Kamoa Copper for metal ...

SHFE copper 2603 contract closed at 101,510 yuan/mt. Based on the BC copper 2603 contract price of 90,050 yuan/mt, its post-tax price is 101,756 yuan/mt, resulting in a price spread of -246 between ...

Kamoa-Kakula produced 388,838 tonnes of copper in concentrate in 2025, achieving guidance Ivanhoe confirms previously set 2026 Kamoa-Kakula production guidance of 380,000 to 420,000 tonnes of copper ...

Metso has launched a fully electric Anode Weighing and Casting Machine, which incorporates the latest Outotec Casting Control system with self-diagnostic and machine intelligence capabilities, to ...

Lihua International Inc., a China-based company, announced that it has signed a 2011 copper anode volume supply contract for 30,000 tons with a Chinese customer the company recently added.

The Survey illustrates this concern with the example of a 1 GW wind turbine, which needs around 2,866 tonnes of copper. This ...