When engineers want to make a metal stronger, one of the most reliable strategies is to use smaller grains—the microscopic ...

Often strung from utility poles or buried beneath our feet, copper wire has played a critical role in powering America’s electrical grid for more than a century. But brazen thefts are threatening the ...

Copper continued its record-breaking rally on Monday amid stockpiling of the metal in the US, while China set domestic growth as its top economic priority for next year, boosting the demand outlook.

The IEA warns that global copper demand could exceed supply by up to 30% by 2035, driven by electrification, AI expansion, and clean energy deployment. China’s surge in refined copper output and ...

Southern Copper Corporation stands out as the premier copper pure play, maintaining focus and operational discipline amid industry diversification. SCCO boasts the largest copper reserves, ambitious ...

Copper rallied to a fresh record as a surge in orders to withdraw metal from London Metal Exchange warehouses compounded worries that potential US tariffs will fuel a global supply squeeze. Futures ...

The penny, the United States' iconic one-cent coin whose copper face and everyman symbolism endeared it to millions of Americans before it fell into change-drawer obscurity, died on Nov. 12, 2025. It ...

LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Copper has been added to the U.S. government's list of critical minerals - the metals deemed vital to the country's economic and national security. Fortunately, the United ...

Still Bright hopes its chemical process could help replace polluting copper smelters. Demand for copper is surging, as is pollution from its dirty production processes. The founders of one startup, ...

There wasn’t going to be enough copper even before AI. The expected demands for copper from the electrification of future technologies was already going to overwhelm supply, long before the AI ...

1. On June 30, 2025, the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) transmitted to me a report on his investigation into the effects of imports of copper in all forms (copper), including copper ores, copper ...

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 ...