After a year of eye-popping profits in the copper industry that gave way to massive losses and layoffs, it appears 2009 may bring stability.

A six-year-old stock transfer that Asarco LLC says plunged the Tucson copper company into bankruptcy has been voided by a federal judge.

International Royalty Corp. said Wednesday it has invested $5 million in Nord Resources Corp.'s producing Johnson Camp copper mine in Cochise County, Ariz., in exchange for a royalty on the project.

Nord Resources Corporation , which is ramping up mining and processing operations at Johnson Camp Mine in Arizona, today announced its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2008.

PHOENIX (March 31, 2009) - The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and Arizona Attorney General's Office announced today that Freeport-McMoRan Sierrita Inc. will pay $105,000 to the state under

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah scientists devised a new way to find miners trapped by cave-ins. The method involves installing iron plates and sledgehammers at regular intervals inside mines, and sensitive listening devices on the ground overhead.

Tucson-based Jacobs Assay Office was acquired by two other locally based mining services firms.