Every Magna Bureau story on metals: 13 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
NewsXi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals.
NewsOne Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
NewsWater shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices.
NewsGermany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a Janua
NewsAustralia's central bank lifted its cash rate to 4.60% on Tuesday — the highest since 2011 — citing a broadening Middle East conflict and rising energy costs. Unanimous, unsentimental, and very possib
NewsThe president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state. Fifty-seven pro
NewsRio Tinto and China's Baowu opened a $2 billion, 25-million-tonne iron ore mine at Paraburdoo this weekend. In a decade of decoupling talk, the ore that built modern China still ties the two countries
NewsAbout 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin s
NewsThe US president says China is 'dumping' weapons into the hands of narco-terrorists killing Americans — hours before confirming a face-to-face with Xi in South Korea. Accusation and embrace, on the sa
NewsSpodumene fetched US$2,105 a tonne — up 92% in three months. The miner raised output guidance across iron ore, lithium and mining services, and the ASX battery boom is back.
NewsEl Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsIn an interview with France 24, the ICC's lead investigator on the Kony case says the Ugandan warlord remains active within the Lord's Resistance Army, as fresh attacks in eastern Central African Repu
