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BHP’s new boss Brandon Craig (left) talks to the media with chair Ross McEwan (centre) and outgoing CEO Mike Henry.

BHP cushioned from geopolitical shocks, incoming boss says

BHP Americas chief Brandon Craig will succeed Henry as chief executive of Australia’s largest mining company in July.

  • Simon Johanson and Nick Toscano

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Rio has benefited from a surge in global commodity prices.

‘Front and centre’: Rio Tinto gets copper boost as it delivers $14.1b profit

The London and ASX-listed miner said it achieved a “strong operational performance” and increased its copper output 8 per cent.

  • Simon Johanson
Copper made-up the largest share of BHP’s underlying earnings in the half-year to December 2025.

BHP cashes in on ‘metal of the future’

BHP’s half-year profit surges to $8 billion as high global demand for copper pays off for the mining giant.

  • Simon Johanson
US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington DC.

The future is electric: Hot metals are exposing the fossil fuel fantasy

Drill, baby, drill: The arrival of the revanchist Trump administration was seen by the carbon industry as an opportunity to demonstrate fossil fuels’ indispensability to the world. It didn’t work out that way.

  • David Fickling and Ruth Pollard
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Australian giant’s desperate bid to ruin a $92 billion deal

It was worth it for BHP chief Mike Henry to have one last throw of the dice.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Glencore’s lead and copper smelters in Mount Isa.

Nation’s manufacturing at ‘dangerous crossroads’ with more big bailouts to come

The government is set to announce its third major industry rescue package this year.

  • Nick Toscano, Mike Foley and Shane Wright
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A diamond drill rig working at Hot Chili’s La Verde copper-gold discovery in Chile’s Atacama region.

Hot Chili chases copper-gold monsters in Chilean copper homeland

Hot Chili has fired up diamond rigs at its emerging La Verde copper-gold porphyry discovery in Chile’s Atacama region, as copper prices swell and exploration heats up in the heartland of copper production.

  • Andrew Todd
True North Copper drilling at its Cloncurry copper projects in northwest Queensland.

True North strikes high-grade copper-gold in Qld copper heartland

True North Copper has returned a flurry of high-grade copper-gold hits at its Wallace North prospect in northwest Queensland, extending its known high-grade resources.

  • Andrew Todd
Everyone wants copper. So who of the mining sector’s heavyweights will attempt to nix Anglo and Teck’s deal?

The copper wars are here: Mega merger could trigger battle of the mining giants

Anglo American and Canada’s Teck have agreed to create one of the world’s larger copper companies. Will BHP and Rio Tinto be content to watch from the sidelines?

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House.

The unintended consequences of Trump’s copper tariff

The US has a lot of copper in the ground but not much capacity to process it. That imbalance and Donald Trump’s new 50 per cent tariff will inflict longer-lasting pain on US manufacturers.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz