Mining mergers are back in style. Rio Tinto, the industry’s fourth-most valuable company, has confirmed it is in talks to acquire Glencore, a Swiss competitor, and thus create the world’s biggest ...

Endolith has reported a major advance in copper extraction as it pushes the frontiers of microbial science. In collaboration with BHP’s (ASX:BHP,NYSE:BHP,LSE:BHP) innovation arm, Think & Act ...

Barrick Gold has chosen to use end-to-end mining solutions company Metso’s Concorde Cell flotation technology.

From a viewpoint at about 6,190 feet above sea level, a giant hole in the Oquirrh Mountains stretches two and a half miles wide and ¾ of a mile deep. Trucks with tires bigger than a sedan look like ...

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to supply low-carbon copper produced using its Nuton bioleaching technology to AWS data centers in the US.

Discover how PGNAA is transforming materials analysis in mining, cement, and steel. Get expert insights from Thermo Fisher’s Garry Noble.

The head of a Chilean mining company that wants to open a copper-nickel mine on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness says a new import tax on copper could help the project.

Brazil holds some of the world’s largest reserves of critical minerals, including niobium, rare earths, graphite, manganese, bauxite, zinc, and lithium. However, the next frontier is copper, which now ...

COPJ gained 109% in 2025 and grew from $37M to a top performer by equal-weighting 50 copper miners. JPMorgan projects copper at $12,075 per metric ton through 2026 driven by AI data center demand.