Copper
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- Mining
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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‘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
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
- Opinion
- Fossil fuels
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
- Opinion
- Mergers & acquisitions
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
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- Manufacturing
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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- Bulls N' Bears
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
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- Bulls N' Bears
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
- Opinion
- Company mergers
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
- Opinion
- Trade wars
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