Natural Resources

A scarcity of electric-vehicle battery materials is pushing car companies and miners to work closer together. For both, there is a learning curve.

Newmont’s $17.5 billion recommended takeover of Australia’s Newcrest boosts its exposure to a key metal in the energy transition.

Demand for a commodity used in batteries has risen sharply as the take-up of electric vehicles accelerates.

This year has brought a sustained rebound in the riskiest assets across markets, from crypto to technology stocks, thanks in part to a crest in the long-term interest rates.

New U.S. legislation points to the world being short of copper in a few years. A few big mining firms could be huge beneficiaries.

Maersk is selling its stake in The Metals Company, the latest big name to divest itself of its seabed mining interests.

The companies believe that the benefits to manufacturers, mining companies are others are easier to grasp than in the consumer market.

Mining companies are back at the deals table as they battle for control of commodities essential for making electric cars and renewable-energy infrastructure.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government is expelling gold miners from the Yanomami people’s lands in a bid to halt Amazonian destruction.

The Canadian miner said its own plan to split into two independent companies was in the best interest of its shareholders.

The commodities company said it would add a cash component to its roughly $23-billion merger proposal for the Canadian miner, as it seeks to cinch a deal that would create a copper giant.

The takeover would be the largest-ever M&A deal in the gold-mining industry if successful.

Companies that went public through mergers with special-purpose acquisition companies in recent years booked billions of dollars in goodwill write-downs in 2022, reflecting in part a reckoning of the heady premiums paid to secure deals during the SPAC boom.

The Canadian miner said it had rejected an unsolicited takeover offer from the Swiss-based company.

Once a popular gold mining site, around 117,000 documented troy ounces have been extracted from the land.

The move is part of an arms-purchase package valued at more than $2 billion, though questions remain over how quickly the bloc can accelerate deliveries.

Competition for supplies of minerals and metals—and anticipated battery demand—is pushing the European Union to jump-start an industrial sector that has declined this century.

South Africa’s government said it is investigating the fast-fashion company following complaints it may be exploiting tax loopholes to gain an unfair advantage in Africa’s most developed economy.

The new black-tie trend of lapel brooches hit an Oscar-winning high. Ke Huy Quan, Paul Mescal and others led the shiny pack.

U.S. and EU talk of collaborating to ensure energy security in the renewable age. A bigger priority should be strengthening trade links with big mining nations in the Global South.