Freeport McMoRan, Newmont Mining, state-owned company PT Antam and Chinese investors have teamed up to build a $2.2 billion, 400,000-tpy copper smelter in east Java, Indonesia.

The Metal Bulletin copper concentrates index was broadly stable on Wednesday April 30, as market participants awaited firm news regarding the restart of exports from Indonesia.

Over in Hong Kong for LME Asia Week, the focus was on the island’s trading ties with China. Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEx) ceo Charles Li said he hopes that mutual access in equities will be followed by mutual access in commodities.

Following another busy week in the newsroom, Metal Bulletin's deputy editor Fleur Ritzema takes a look back at some of the key stories.

Less than a year after it bought Xstrata, Glencore is set to erase the name from its official corporate title in an agm vote next month, the company confirmed on Thursday April 17.

Copper. The arbitrage window into China opened the week before the conference began, and bonded stocks are decreasing. After the sharp decline seen following Black Friday, March 7, when LME copper prices lost around 5% of their value, premiums in Shanghai assessed by Metal Bulletin firmed up last week. Has the bear story in China been overdone?

The annual copper industry CESCO week was held in Santiago, Chile, between April 7 and 11.

MMG, the international unit of China Minmetals, has agreed to buy Glencore Xstrata’s Las Bambas project in Peru to expand its presence in the copper market.

Nickel prices on the London Metal Exchange settled above $17,000 per tonne for the first time since March 2013 on Thursday April 10, lifted by the Indonesian ore export ban.

Indian diversified miner Sesa Sterlite produced 1.5 million tonnes of saleable iron ore in the January-March period, parent company Vedanta Resources said on Thursday April 10.