Mining
Tuesday's Close Turns on Breadth, Bullion and the Oil Majors
Tuesday's settlement shows how participation across energy, metals and clean power compares with the headline moves in individual names.
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Energy's Maps Learn to Answer Questions
Pipeline and oil majors are wiring AI agents into their GIS platforms so anyone can ask a map a question. The drone data feeding those maps still waits on a federal rule, and the answers still need checking.
PhotographPipeline and oil majors are wiring AI agents into their GIS platforms so anyone can ask a map a question. The drone data feeding those maps still waits on a federal rule, and the answers still need checking.
Mining
Copper's Real Squeeze Is Outside the US
American warehouses hold 70% of the world's visible copper, and the shortage is everywhere else. Freeport's quarter shows how far a price rally can outrun a miner's volume problems.
Mining
Mining Press Roundup: Glencore and CNGR Contract Centaurus' Jaguar Nickel Output and Back It With Equity
Glencore and CNGR have contracted Centaurus Metals' Jaguar nickel concentrate and put equity into the project, while Perpetua's tungsten award and Nova's final Alaska antimony permits show critical-minerals backing continuing.
Oil & Gas
Refiners Bank the Crack Spread Windfall
Valero, Phillips 66 and HF Sinclair booked refining margins that dwarf last year's, while crude itself stayed expensive. The profit is in the spread, and the spread depends on Hormuz.
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Mining
Australia Stacks Loans Behind Donald Mine
Canberra has conditionally lined up A$180 million for a Victorian rare earths project that feeds a US processing and magnet chain. The loans are conditional, and no one has yet decided to build the mine.
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Dispersion Takes Over Monday's Session as Energy, Metals and Clean Power Pull Apart
Monday's close showed little sector-wide agreement, with individual names and sub-industries diverging sharply across oil, mining and renewables.
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Mining Press Roundup: Australia Conditionally Backs Energy Fuels' Donald Rare Earths Project
Conditional Australian government loan approvals for Energy Fuels and Astron's Donald rare earths project lead a day of financing, drilling and leadership news across the mining press.
Technology
EQT Bets Big on Range and Appalachia
EQT is paying in stock for Range Resources, wagering that data centers and LNG exports will reward scale in Appalachia. Gas prices are going the other way.
Mining
Governments Become Mineral Shareholders
Brasília, Brussels, Washington and the World Bank have all moved from writing rules for critical minerals to buying in. Lula's re-election means the country with vast rare earth reserves keeps its hand on the lever.