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  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Germany’s steelmakers plan to go green

    Europe’s biggest producer is moving away from carbon-intensive blast furnaces and towards hydrogen-powered processing

    An employee in fireproof protective clothing is silhouetted against the fire of the blast furnace
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Mining
    Elliott Management on the hunt for mining assets worth at least $1bn

    Florida firm’s new Hyperion venture to be led by former Newcrest chief executive

    Ore is hauled from the Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon Copper Mine
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Glencore
    Glencore slashes dividend in effort to shrink debt

    Earnings at mining and trading group halve as commodity prices soften

    The logo of commodities trader Glencore
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    LexMining
    Anglo American shows mining’s old economy problem Premium content

    Amid falling prices for some industrial metals, the sector is struggling to convince investors of its importance

    Anglo American chief executive Duncan Wanblad
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto approves world’s biggest mining project in west Africa

    Miner’s chief Jakob Stausholm outlines ambition to produce iron ore from $20bn development as soon as 2025

    Jakob Stausholm, chief executive of Rio Tinto
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Horizonte Minerals PLC
    Glencore-backed nickel miner Horizonte issues finance warning

    London-listed group reports a more than doubling in the cost of building flagship project in Brazil

    Construction of the Araguaia nickel mine
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    LexCommercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd
    Boeing’s crisis may open gap for Chinese jets to fly through Premium content

    Demand for air travel is booming in south and south-east Asia, which are less sensitive to US-China tensions

    Comac aircraft models at the Singapore Airshow on February 20 2024
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Norsk Hydro warns of construction demand slump similar to pandemic

    Aluminium producer’s CFO says metals sector hit hard by high rates and rising building costs

    The Norsk Hydro Alunorte refinery in Brazil
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Albemarle Corp
    Top lithium producer Albemarle downgrades 2030 demand forecast as EV shift slows

    Chinese consumer shift to smaller battery cars that need less of the metal is also expected to cut usage

    Lithium brine evaporation ponds at Albemarle’s lithium mine in Silver Peak, US
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Mining
    Australia classifies nickel as a ‘critical’ mineral to protect ailing industry

    Producers of EV battery material fear collapse as supply glut from Indonesia knocks prices

    Employees outside the BHP Kwinana Nickel Refinery in Western Australia
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Thyssenkrupp AG
    Thyssenkrupp cuts full-year sales and profit guidance

    German industrial conglomerate writes down value of its steel business for second time in three months

    A steel worker stands amid sparks from a blast furnace at a Thyssenkrupp factory in Duisbery, Germany
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Glencore
    Glencore to sell stake in lossmaking New Caledonia nickel operations

    Production suspended after sharp fall in price of metal used for stainless steel and electric car batteries

    A nickel factory in New Caledonia
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Crisis at Gupta steel operations threatens European production, unions warn

    European Commission urged to create task force to tackle problems at business magnate’s Liberty Steel

  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Labour’s Reynolds urges Tata boss to retain blast furnace at Port Talbot

    Indian parent of owner of Welsh steelworks signals it was unlikely to change course after meeting with UK opposition party

    Tata Steel workers on site in blast furnace number  4.
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Anglo American PLC
    Anglo American boss resists asset sales despite investor pressure

    Wanblad warns that thousands of job losses are likely in the platinum business

    Duncan Wanblad
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Copper
    Bill Gates-backed mining company discovers vast Zambian copper deposit

    KoBold Metals’ discovery comes as US steps up African metals push to rival China’s dominance

    A truck at the Chibuluma copper mine
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Lex
    Europe can still avoid the coming ‘green steel’ crunch Premium content

    Moving clean energy around is an oft-touted solution but steelmakers might also wish to rethink their inputs

    The steel mill in Taranto, Italy, formerly known as Ilva
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Indonesia’s flood of nickel sparks ‘Darwinian’ battle for survival among miners

    Western capitals fear closure of unviable mines will increase China’s control of critical resource

    Workers monitoring the nickel melting process at a smelter in Indonesia
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    InterviewArcelorMittal SA
    Rome must provide green funding to ArcelorMittal plant, industry chief says

    Italian government urged to emulate France and Germany to decarbonise and help save country’s largest steel plant

    The ArcelorMittal steelworks in Taranto, southern Italy
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    News in-depthLithium
    Lithium price plunges on slowing Chinese demand for electric vehicles

    Miners slash costs and scale back plans to increase production after battery metal’s price plummets more than 80% in 12 months

    Ore falls from a conveyor on to a stockpile at the Bald Hill lithium mine site outside Widgiemooltha, Australia
  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
    News in-depthIndonesian politics
    After Widodo: Indonesia votes on president for next chapter of nickel boom

    Investors hope successor will maintain path that transformed economy into a commodities powerhouse

    A pedestrian in front of campaign banners in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A step into the unknown for Britain’s steel industry

    Closing its blast furnaces will leave the UK having to make the metal from scrap

    Blast Furnace number four at the Tata Steel Port Talbot
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    Mining
    Miners must protect environment or face threat to projects for green switch

    Teck boss Price issues warning over potential curbs to production of key metals such as copper, lithium and iron ore

    Jonathan Price at Davos
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    LexBatteries
    Electric vehicle batteries will not deliver new supercycle for miners Premium content

    Mining groups have begun to look elsewhere for growth

    An electric vehicle battery
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    News in-depthTata Steel Ltd
    Steel town Port Talbot braces for impact of Tata closure

    Unions warn that decision to shut down blast furnaces will have ‘devastating’ effect

    Tata Steel site in Port Talbot, seen from a residential street. It is estimated that at least three jobs locally are reliant on every job in the steel works
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