U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he planned to announce a 50% tariff on copper imports later in the day, ...

Upending the Copper Market President Trump announced a 50% tariff on copper imports on July 8, aligning it with existing ...

The United States has only two copper smelters — in Utah and Arizona — and both are at total capacity. Critics surmise that Resolution Copper will likely send raw material to China, where the ...

This week, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, one of the world’s largest mining companies, were given permission from the U.S. Forest Service to move ahead with the Resolution prospect near Apache Leap in ...

What will be one of the largest copper mines in the United States owes its existence, in part, to Sen. John McCain. McCain moved mountains in Congress so that the Resolution Copper Project could ...

The site could become the third-largest copper mine in the United States, although plans to mine the deposit have met with concerns from some local residents and environmental groups. According to ...

President Trump wants America to produce more of the much-needed mineral, but a 50 percent tariff could undermine his aim of ...

The DRC home to some of the world’s richest copper deposits, with ore grades surpassing 2.5 percent—more than 4 times the global average and 11 times that of the largest operating copper mine in the ...