Metals Market Headlines — 17 February 2026
Top 10 Metals & Mining Headlines
- Trilogy Metals loss widens on US funding charge
- BHP leans on copper growth, not big deals
- Copper price: Global exchange stocks top 1 million tonnes first time in 21 years
- CHART: EV battery metals index jumps to 27-month high
- Legal analysis: What Project Vault means for critical minerals regulation
- British Columbia investor slapped with C$500,000 fine for mining misrepresentation
- Niger stockpiled 1,000t of yellowcake at military base: FT
- OP-Ed: Permanent magnets are the spear in the critical minerals supply chain
- Hecla nearly doubles exploration budget
- Lundin finds new copper-gold systems in Ecuador