Metals Market Headlines — 9 January 2026
Top 10 Metals & Mining Headlines
- Rio Tinto open to owning coal to secure Glencore deal: reports
- Lundin seeks Chile permit for $150M Caserones upgrade
- Fortitude Gold starts County Line mine operations, gets permits for Scarlet South
- Greenland miner Amaroq soars on report of US gov’t investment
- China-Japan rare earth spat curbs exports
- Silver price extends slide on index rebalancing
- Energy Fuels estimates $1.8B value for Madagascar mineral sands project
- Guyana oil and mining sectors gain as Venezuela risk eases
- AI to boost copper demand 50% by 2040 — S&P
- Gold overtakes US bonds as largest foreign reserve asset