About 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity ...

At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...

At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...

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Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s conglomerate has signed contracts to buy 1.6 million tons a year of copper concentrate for the world’s largest single-location smelter for the industrial metal. The ...

Hudbay Minerals has entered into a joint venture with Mitsubishi to build its Copper World project. The deal helps Hudbay ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A subsidiary of London-based oil giant BP agreed to finish its cleanup of a 300-square mile (776-square kilometer) site in Montana that’s contaminated with arsenic and other ...

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On July 9, 2025, President Trump announced the imposition of a sweeping 50 percent tariff on all imported copper, effective August 1. The announcement followed a five-month investigation under Section ...

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