Glencore’s profits more than doubled to a record in the first half of the year, cementing the group’s status as one of the biggest winners from the turmoil in commodity markets unleashed by the war in Ukraine.
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Global mining personality and financier Robert Friedland has singled out Africa and the Arabian Shield as the venues where the world’s future-facing minerals and metals will be responsibly produced.
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The global copper industry needs to spend more than $100 billion to build mines able to close what could be an annual supply deficit of 4.7 million tonnes by 2030, Erik Heimlich, head of base metals supply at CRU said this week.
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The energy transition is seen as marking a shift away from the “bad old” habits of the fossil fuel industry, but accessing the strategic resources pose their own often-overlooked problems.
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The energy transition is in full swing, with electric vehicles supplanting gas guzzlers and solar panels and wind turbines replacing coal and oil as the world’s leading energy sources. The energy transition is driving the next commodity supercycle, with immense prospects for metals producers, technology manufacturers, and energy traders and investors.
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The era-defining shift from fossil fuels to clean energy will deliver an unprecedented new boom for commodities—and an opportunity for investors—as a range of relatively obscure materials become essential to delivering emissions-free power, transport and heavy industry.
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Clockwise from top left: Lithium, steel, corn, copper, oil, salt, aluminum, diesel fuel and iron. Source: Bloomberg (7), Getty Images (2) From oil to steel, raw material prices are surging. As the world economy recovers, how much further does the boom have to run? Doug King set up his hedge fund in the early days
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Where would Batman be without Robin? With that logic, you can say that where would Lithium be without Cobalt in most electric cars?
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An African nation emerging from decades of conflict and corruption holds the key to greening the global economy.
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Cars of the future will drive demand for battery metals. Picture: Tron: Legacy, Walt Disney Pictures Commodities producer and trader Glencore has put some bold numbers on the volumes of battery metals needed to supply the world as its moves away from fossil fuels usage. The London-listed company has modelled the quantities of cobalt, copper,
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