Australia is home to some of the world’s largest copper reserves, with the US Geological Survey (USGS) reporting that the country houses some 100 million tonnes (mt) of the mineral (just over 10% of ...

Red Metals, a next-generation copper manufacturer, announced it has raised $10 million in seed funding and plans to invest $70 million in a new production facility in Charleston, South Carolina. The ...

Copper is the backbone of the clean-energy transition, wired into every electric vehicle motor, wind turbine, and solar inverter rolling off production lines worldwide. Yet roughly 70% of the planet’s ...

A pound of copper now costs more than ever before — and there’s more to the story than just the artificial-intelligence race. Sulfuric acid, a critical component in copper refining, has been in ...

Electrochemical copper refining harnesses controlled redox reactions to convert impure blister copper into high-purity metal, chiefly through electrorefining and electrowinning techniques. In ...

Mariana Minerals, led by CEO Turner Caldwell, is operating what it says is the world’s first autonomous mine, extracting and refining copper in Utah to meet surging demand for the costly metal.

Recycled-content copper production rose by 4.3 percent year on year in the first seven months of 2027, according to the International Copper Study Group. Although secondary copper investments have ...

BloombergNEF says copper faces a deficit from 2028 and needs $332 billion in new mines, even as nine of 10 key transition ...

Learn about the changes in copper concentrate pricing starting January 2027 that impact smelters and traders alike.

The tightness in the copper concentrate market has been reflected in treatment and refining charges (TCs/RCs), which are approaching all-time lows set in April 2021. Fastmarkets calculated the copper ...

Copper futures on Comex settled at a record high of $6.53 a pound on Tuesday. A pound of copper now costs more than ever before - and there's more to the story than just the artificial-intelligence ...