Freeport lays off 650, slows operations at Chile’s El Abra mine

Last week, consulting firm Russell Reynolds delivered a list of 15 potential successors for Eduardo Bartolomeo.

The world’s single biggest buyer of copper, State Grid Corp. of China, has slowed its purchases of copper wire this year.

The planned Grand Inga hydropower complex in the DRC has been stalled for decades.

Around 30% of China’s refined copper production used scrap metal as a feedstock in 2023.