Metals Market Headlines — 13 February 2026
Top 10 Metals & Mining Headlines
- Agnico Eagle posts record reserves, hikes payout
- Copper price: Strains deepen as global smelting activity hits decade low
- Sandvik acquires South Africa’s ThoroughTec Simulation
- Gold price drops 3% on US jobs data beat
- i-80 Gold secures $500M package to fund Nevada growth plan
- Battered Vizsla keeps ‘long-term’ commitment to Mexican project
- Fortescue rolls out battery trains in Western Australia
- Op Ed: Canadians must match American urgency in the race for critical minerals
- South America seen as West’s safest minerals bet: Report
- Albemarle to idle Kemerton lithium hydroxide processing plant in Western Australia