Multiple drivers are pushing and pulling copper supply and demand. Myra Pinkham reviews their impact and gathers expert opinion on what may happen next in the markets for the red metal

CME Group will launch an options contract on its physically-delivered aluminum futures on May 23, pending regulatory review, the Chicago-based exchange said

Cobalt market participants attending last week’s MMTA conference in Sheffield, UK, claimed that cobalt price rises that have supported the market since the beginning of the year will not lead to falling demand from the quickly-growing battery industry

Producers are increasingly finding it hard to transport their copper and cobalt out of operation sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), due to truckers choosing to stay away from the country's border

Andrea Hotter speaks with the US Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, about the protracted metals and mining permitting process and its impact on the supply of critical minerals for the energy transition

China's base metals industry seems to be taking the biggest hit from the country's latest virus-control restrictions, with the authorities sticking with a restrictive “dynamic clearing” approach in a bid to see off the country's worst Covid-19 outbreak since early 2020.

German copper producer Aurubis is on track to deliver its new recycling plant in Georgia, the United States, with the project just the starting point for the company’s foray outside Europe, the company’s chief executive officer said

Latest analysis for aluminium, copper, lead, nickel, tin and zinc from our team of base metals experts

Fastmarkets has corrected the LME Asian reference and TAPO prices for March 18, which were published incorrectly due to a technical error.

Despite the belief in some quarters that the benchmark aluminium premium in the United States had finally peaked, the P1020 premium rose to yet another all-time high on Friday March 11, approaching 40 cents per lb