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Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday June 28 that are worth another look.
Unionized workers at Codelco’s Chuquicamata copper mining and smelting complex in Chile have accepted the company’s offer of a new labor contract, union officials said in the early hours of Thursday June 27.
A gallery collapse at Glencore’s Kamoto Copper Company in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 19 people, the company said in a filing on the London Stock Exchange on June 27.
Fastmarkets will two months from the publication of this notice delist and cease to publish 40 steel scrap, non-ferrous scrap and foundry ingot prices that it currently carries from third parties.
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday June 26 that are worth another look.
The Lusaka High Court in Zambia ruled on Wednesday June 26 that the appointed liquidator of Vedanta-owned Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) could not dispose of the assets, which include the country’s largest copper smelter Nchanga, according to a court document seen by Fastmarkets.
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