Section 1. Policy. Copper is a critical material essential to the national security, economic strength, and industrial resilience of the United States. Copper, scrap copper, and copper’s derivative ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday declared that U.S. reliance on imported copper represents a “significant vulnerability” to the nation’s national and economic security and ordered a review of both ...

The International Copper Study Group says copper production increased in the first half of 2025, and London-based Earth-i says the trend continues. Earth-i, in a late September press release, says ...

Satellite tracking and analysis firm Earth-i observes 40 percent of capacity operating rates at some copper smelting plants in China. Global secondary refined recycled-content production grew by 5.5 ...

MELBOURNE, May 18 (Reuters) - Xstrata plans to phase out copper smelting at Mt Isa in Australia and refining in Townsville by the end 2016 due to a glut in global smelting capacity, the company said ...

Pan Pacific Copper and Lundin Mining Corp. have agreed to keep processing fees to turn copper ores into metal broadly unchanged next year, with the miner choosing not to pursue reductions that would ...