Anglo American’s first-quarter copper output fell by 15% year-on-year, mainly due to it taking the smaller of the two Los Bronces processing plants offline for 51 days in the quarter to manage water reserve levels.

Zambia’s cabinet has approved changes to the country’s controversial copper mining royalties, although details on the changes remain unclear.

India’s prime minister Narendra Modi's Make in India campaign, set up to promote the country as a manufacturing hub for both domestic and export markets, is progressing since it was set up in September. It is intended to boost the production of metals such as steel and aluminium.

Brazil's copper producer Paranapanema has been increasing its exports of cathodes, wires and rods as domestic demand continues to weaken, the company's ceo told Metal Bulletin on Monday April 13.

After another busy week in our global newsrooms, we have outlined some of the big stories from the past few days.

Shanghai copper premiums dipped further after the Tomb-Sweeping holiday amid sluggish sentiment, as bills of lading cargoes which had failed to be sold out before arriving were transferred to China’s bonded warehouses.

Ferro-molybdenum prices fell further in Europe on Wednesday April 1, as neither the floods in Chile nor the introduction of European anti-dumping measures on Chinese and Taiwanese stainless steel provided support.

A letter to Metal Bulletin from Steven Spencer.

Russian metals producer Norilsk Nickel has posted net profits for 2014 almost three times higher than it made in 2013, on higher average realised nickel prices and a “substantial reduction of cash operating costs”, as well as stronger revenues.

At the end of another busy week in the Metal Bulletin newsrooms, deputy editor Fleur Ritzema takes a look back at some of the key stories.