Today's commodity news

Copper touches record high, focus on tight supplies outside US

Copper prices hit a record high as concerns over shortages outside the US boosted buying, while a weaker dollar supported metals. LME copper touched $14,533 a metric ton, surpassing its January peak. Falling Shanghai stocks and strong US inventories highlight…

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Copper touches record high, focus on tight supplies outside US

Copper prices hit a record high as concerns over shortages outside the US boosted buying, while a weaker dollar supported metals. LME copper touched $14,533 a metric ton, surpassing its January peak. Falling Shanghai stocks and strong US inventories highlight…

The Times of India ↗

Volume gains, diversification into coal and minerals to drive NMDC growth

NMDC targets 60 MT of iron ore production in FY27 and plans to start commercial thermal coal output as it diversifies into coal, critical minerals and rare earth elements

Business Standard ↗

The Green Energy Paradox: Saving Nature by Destroying It

Photo Credit: AuthorBy Mark KeenanIf saving nature requires destroying nature on an industrial scale, perhaps the first thing that needs recycling is our definition of environmentalism.

Americanthinker.com ↗

Base metals playbook: Stock selection key for investors as easy gains fade

The gains in base metals have powered several metal stocks like Hindustan Copper and NALCO, which rose 112 per cent and 77 per cent in a year.

Business Standard ↗

3 Tata group cos, 4 Railway stocks, 2 shipping sector, 3 Pharma majors, Adani Enterprises, NMDC, SJVN, Nava, Stanley Lifestyle will remain in focus on Monday, Sept 7

Key developments across multiple sectors, including Tata’s ambitious AI data centre investment and significant corporate maneuvers in pharmaceuticals and shipping, are set to shape market dynamics ahead of a busy trading week.

BusinessLine ↗

Switchable single-atom catalysts for highly selective C–C coupling in direct methane oxidation

Single copper atoms on boron nanosheets dynamically and reversibly switch to clusters, enabling the direct conversion of methane to acetic acid with 97% selectivity and high activity without the requirement for carbon monoxide.

Nature.com ↗

Directed heterogeneous hydride transfer enables selective CO2 reduction using a Janus palladium membrane electrode

Electrochemical CO2 reduction is typically constrained by proton-coupled electron transfer, which couples CO2 conversion with competing H2 evolution. Now it has been shown that a Janus palladium membrane electrode enables selective formate production through …

Nature.com ↗

Most Critical Minerals Aren’t Going to the Energy Transition

An Oakland Institute analysis challenges claims that a large increase in mining is an unavoidable cost of replacing fossil fuels. Using International Energy Agency (IEA) data, Oakland calculated that wind, solar, renewable-power networks, grid batteries and e…

OilPrice.com ↗

bleecam added to PyPI

Benchmarking Life Cycle Environmental, Economic, and Social Metrics for Critical and Advanced Minerals and Materials

Pypi.org ↗

Canada’s mining future comes with a hidden carbon cost

The discovery that acid mine drainage remediation may generate substantial long-term carbon emissions, in Canada and many places world-wide, serves as a reminder that environmental accounting remains a work in progress. Critical minerals will remain central t…

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U.S. July Copper Imports Reach Record Monthly High, Data Shows

The United States imported a record 225,094 metric tons of refined copper and copper alloys in July, the highest monthly total in records dating back to 1990, according to official data released on Sept. 3. The figure, reported by the U.S. Department of Comme…

Naturalnews.com ↗