Broken trade flows, inflated steel prices and the pull of decarbonization targets are changing the way US steelmakers think, plan and run their day-to-day operations. Is the US steel scrap industry coming to an end of globalization and entering a new era of domestic sovereignty?

Nucor Corp quickly navigated panic in the pig iron market, even as it took a hardline approach and ceased all purchases from Russia at the onset of its war in Ukraine

Copper and zinc made the biggest morning gains among the base metals on the London Metal Exchange on Friday, April 29, supported by the Chinese government's commitment to supporting its economy through its ongoing Covid-19 lockdowns

Critical shortfalls loom without new primary metals supply and better recycling in the system soon, endangering Europe’s goal of a more autonomous clean energy system, according to a new study commissioned by Eurometaux, the region’s association of metal producers

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.