Trump to impose 50% tariff on copper imports starting Aug 1, citing national security risks and dependence on foreign sources ...

Mining stocks rallied after President Trump confirmed the US will impose 50% tariffs on global copper imports beginning ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he planned to announce a 50% tariff on copper imports later in the day, surprising a global industry whose output is critical to electric vehicles, military ...

Rio Tinto Kennecott is loaning $5 million to Milford Mining Company to support the resumption of the mine's operations and ...

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 ...

The Australian mining major BHP expects the demand for copper to grow by around 70 percent, to 50 million tonnes, by 2050, as it is used more widely for a range of applications.

Mining enough copper to sustain "business as usual" growth would require 78 new copper mines between now and 2050 that would produce 500,000 metric tons of copper per year.

Members of Apache and others who want to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona gather outside the U.S. District Court, May 7, 2025, in Phoenix. Credit: AP/Matt York ...

Resolution Copper — a subsidiary of international mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP — has estimated that 40 billion pounds of copper could be mined over the lifetime of the mine and that the ...

Mining enough copper to sustain "business as usual" growth would require 78 new copper mines between now and 2050 that would produce 500,000 metric tons of copper per year.