Metals Market Headlines — 22 January 2026
Top 10 Metals & Mining Headlines
- Lundin Mining lifts copper outlook after strong 2025
- South32 backs $35M push at Alaska Arctic copper project
- Tests confirm battery grade cobalt sulphate at NICO project in Northwest Territories
- Trump streamlines permitting for deep-sea miners
- President-elect Kast stuns miners with Chile ministry merge
- Gold price extends record run with $4,900 in sight
- Liberty Gold’s Idaho project gets FAST-41 nod
- Rio Tinto copper output rises as merger talks loom
- Brazilian Nickel, Westwin ink offtake MOU on Piauí project for US market
- US proposed SECURE Act aims to offset China’s grip on critical minerals