and not all copper ore can be economically mined and turned into raw copper. Earlier this year the International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report on the role of critical minerals in the ...

China is the largest consumer of refined copper and accounted for 57 percent of global copper ore imports in 2023 ... properties and abundance as a raw material make it the most efficient and ...

Base metals are moving broadly higher Friday after President Trump said he "would rather not use tariffs" against China, ...

[SMM Analysis: Brief Review of Secondary Copper Rod in 2024] In 2024, the government introduced several policies targeting the recycling industry, among which "reverse invoicing" and the Fair ...

The shortage of copper began intensifying around 2021-2022, driven by the growing mismatch between limited supply and the ...

For Q4, Rio (RIO) said it exported 85.7M tons of iron ore, down 1% from the previous year, while mined copper jumped 26% to 202K tons. "The Chinese economy provided mixed signals during the ...

On January 24, 2025, the SMM Imported Copper Concentrate Index (weekly) stood at -$2.2/mt, marking the second time since May 2024 that the TC value turned negative. Unlike previous instances of brief ...

BHP ( NYSE: BHP) said copper production jumped 17% Y/Y in its fiscal Q2, helping to overcome results from its traditional iron ore asset base which finished nearly flat due to softening demand.