Armenia produced 203,113 tons of copper concentrate in January–July 2026, up 27.6%, while molybdenum rose 25.2% and ferromolybdenum fell 47.4%, official data show.
Georgia's domestic exports reached $2.854 billion in January–July 2026, up 64.1%, with copper ores up 310.8%, precious metal ores up 75.6% and ferroalloys up 74.3%.
AzerGold says four projects, Soyudlu, Ortakend, Filizchay and Dashkesan, need AZN 3.63bn ($2.1bn), with only 10% coming from the state budget.
AzerGold carried out the first blast at the Soyudlu (Zod) gold deposit in Kalbajar, where 18,000m of drilling supports 1m ounces of reserves.
Anglo Asian Mining booked $121.1m of copper export revenue in four months, up from $27.9m a year earlier, as Gilar and Demirli ramp up.
Vicuña Corp. said 2026 investment could rise to about $800 million for the Josemaría and Filo del Sol copper projects in Argentina's Andes.
Rich Metals Group, source of over 10% of Georgia's exports, deployed ABB's first digital electrification system in the country at its Madneuli copper-gold mine.
President Ilham Aliyev told a September 22 meeting in Baku that Azerbaijan must build a complete mining chain through to finished products under a new 2027-2030 state programme.
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