When easy options run out, industries get inventive. That’s where copper miners find themselves. Faced with vigorous demand, ...

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 ...

Gunnison Copper's Johnson Camp mine east of Tucson, Ariz. (Mark Lipczynski for WSJ) Rio Tinto said its Nuton subsidiary, which uses bacteria and acid to extract copper from deposits that are otherwise ...

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Ceibo wants to unlock vast new copper deposits for the energy transition—while making the mining industry more sustainable. Ceibo seeks to eliminate a major potential speed bump for the clean-energy ...

Copper prices are surging on AI data center demand, and Rio Tinto is emerging as the top miner poised to profit from a looming supply shortage.

Central public sector enterprise Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL) has roped in city-based Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT) for ...

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. FCX and Southern Copper Corporation SCCO are two heavyweights in the copper mining industry. Both operate on a global scale, extracting and processing copper and other metals.

As global copper demand continues to rise, Amazon Web Services has agreed to source newly mined copper from Rio Tinto’s operations in Arizona, marking the first domestic copper supply in more than a ...