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 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 ...
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 ...
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. FCX and Southern Copper Corporation SCCO are two heavyweights in the copper mining industry. Both ...
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 ...
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 ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan, Spain and South Korea issued a rare joint statement on Wednesday expressing deep concerns over tumbling copper treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs), warning both smelters ...
In 2024, concern grew about copper supply as copper mines in the top copper-producing countries continued to age without new mines to replace them. Additionally, copper demand from electrification is ...
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 ...