Copper's long-anticipated supply crunch may not depend on what's under the ground, but rather on what's above it. While industry warnings have focused on declining discoveries and the need for dozens ...

The United States has a copper problem. Simply put, the U.S. uses a lot of it and there aren’t enough American mines to pull it out of the ground fast enough. But Ivanhoe Electric is moving toward ...

“Just to meet business-as-usual trends, 115% more copper must be mined in the next 30 years than has been mined historically until now,” the study said. The mining industry can’t unearth copper ...