Until now, aluminium has been hard to move, not hard to find. Global aluminium supply had remained technically intact, even as output was curtailed in parts of the Gulf, inventory buffers were drawn down or repositioned, and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz was severely disrupted.

Guinea’s long-anticipated intervention in the bauxite market is beginning to take shape.

The aluminium market is being pulled in two directions by the Middle East conflict: upstream feedstocks sit in temporary buffer stocks, while delivering metal to consuming regions is becoming increasingly difficult.

Liontown Resources has revived its previously deferred expansion study at its Kathleen Valley mine and is weighing near-term orders for long-lead equipment, its chief executive officer said – the clearest signal yet that growth planning is returning to the agenda as lithium market conditions stabilize.

Fred Demler, a veteran of the metals industry whose career spanned more than five decades, has passed away at the age of 72.

For a brief moment, the mining sector allowed itself to consider a bold idea: Rio Tinto and Glencore in merger discussions.

The United States convened more than 50 countries in Washington this week for a critical minerals summit that delivered a flurry of new initiatives designed to reshape the geopolitics — and pricing mechanics — of minerals essential to semiconductors, electric vehicles and the defense supply chain.

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