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Industrial metals

  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK starts hunt for buyer for British Steel

    Government stepped in to take control of struggling company but is keen to attract private sector investment

    Rachel Reeves pictured at British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant.
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Mining
    BHP says global economy depends on China boosting consumption

    World’s biggest miner says tariff impact ‘limited’ so far

    A worker at BHP's Escondida copper mine in Antofagasta, Chile, stands inside a copper cathodes plant with large metal sheets suspended from machinery and the worker wearing protective gear, including a helmet and mask
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Lex
    A mini-gold rush brews three miles below sea level Premium content

    Whether deep-sea mining will transform the US’s geopolitical fortunes is unclear

    Greenpeace activists hold a yellow banner reading "STOP DEEP SEA MINING" while sitting in kayaks on the ocean
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump threatens to hit critical minerals with tariffs

    US president could escalate trade conflict with Beijing by launching probe into supplies

    Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The UK government needs a proper plan for steel

    The future is not in the Scunthorpe blast furnaces that ministers have rescued

    The British Steel Scunthorpe Site
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    LexBritish Steel Ltd
    British Steel needs a forever subsidy Premium content

    Making the metal at home is a trade-off that seems more appealing when global trust in commerce is scarce

    Montage shows the British Steel plant at Scunthorpe against a data backdrop
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK races to secure coal to keep British Steel furnaces operating

    Officials work to ensure shipments arrive quickly after emergency government intervention

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    ExplainerBritish Steel Ltd
    Why did the UK rush to save British Steel and what happens next?

    Government now has tricky task of running a costly and complex industrial operation

    A large white question mark is imposed over a blue-tinted image of an industrial facility
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Mining
    Pakistan copper mine could offer leverage in US tariff talks, says operator

    Barrick says strategic metal resource could help Islamabad as it faces 29% levy

    Tim Cribb sits in an interview setting with a map of Pakistan and a poster with the Reko Diq Mining Company logo behind him
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK considers nationalising British Steel

    Starmer vows to do ‘everything we can to ensure there’s a bright future’ for steelmaker’s main site in Scunthorpe

    British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US closes in on critical minerals deal with DR Congo

    Trump’s Africa adviser agrees ‘path forward’ to drive American mining investment as Tshisekedi government seeks to shore up support

    Workers at the Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mine in DR Congo
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Markets InsightEllie Saklatvala
    The niche minerals now surging in price as defence spending booms

    Materials needed for everything from bullets to advanced fighter aircraft face acute supply squeezes

    A Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet in flight
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel’s Chinese owner pushed for £1bn state support for Scunthorpe plant

    Jingye rejected £500mn government offer and could close its two blast furnaces as early as June

    a view of the Scunthorpe steel plant
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    Thousands of British Steel jobs at risk as it considers closing blast furnaces in June

    Chinese-owned group will start consultation on cutting roles, it told workers on Thursday

    A steelworker at the British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant in north Lincolnshire
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel’s Chinese owner rejects UK government subsidy offer

    Move triggers fears about job losses at company’s flagship Scunthorpe site

    A steelworker watches as molten steel pours from one of the blast furnaces during ‘tapping’ at the British Steel Scunthorpe plant
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Mercuria Energy Group Ltd
    Mercuria takes on Trafigura and Glencore in metals trading drive

    Geneva-based group plans to buy more stakes in mines as it snaps up copper supplies in challenge to bigger rivals

    Mercuria chief Marco Dunand at the Financial Times Commodities Global Summit
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Trafigura
    Governments should nationalise smelters to compete with China, says Trafigura

    CEO Richard Holtum says minerals processing industry should be considered ‘a national security issue’

    Richard Holtum
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Copper
    Copper to hit $12,000 this year, say major trading groups

    Threat of US tariffs and growing global demand seen as likely to support prices

    Molten copper is seen flowing into a casting vessel at a smelter
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Mining
    Trump invokes wartime powers to increase US minerals production

    President signs executive order in attempt to wean America off critical resources from China

    President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    London Metal Exchange Ltd
    LME fined by UK regulator over 2022 chaos in nickel market

    World’s largest metal exchange hit with £9.2mn penalty for failing to ensure orderly trading

    Traders on the floor of the London Metal Exchange
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Copper
    Copper price hits $10,000 on US tariff fears

    Futures price in London for the red metal climbed to a 5-month high

    Molten copper flows into a casting vessel at the Jinguan Copper smelter in Tongling, China
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    EU trade
    EU to probe aluminium imports diverted by Trump’s tariffs

    Investigation likely to recommend higher levies to protect European industry

    The rods are being loaded in a storage area
  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    Copper
    Vale’s relations with Brazil government improve after tensions last year, says boss

    Group’s head Pimenta highlights easing strains that should help settle investor nerves

    Three workers in hard hats and reflective safety clothing stand in front of a wall in a tunnel
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Mining
    Dig, baby, dig: the global resources groups betting on a Trump mining revival

    It takes 29 years to get approval for a new mine in the US but the industry is hoping that will change

    Resolution copper mine in Arizona
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    EU and Canada retaliate after Trump’s metals tariffs take effect

    Brussels and Ottawa hit tens of billions of dollars' worth of US imports with levies

    A steelworker in Germany
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