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Neil Hume

Former Natural Resources Editor

  • Monday, 22 August, 2022
    Climate change
    Europe risks losing green hydrogen funding to US, industry leader says

    ‘Clean’ fuel investors will favour Biden plan unless Brussels improves incentives, Fortescue chief claims

    Fortescue Future Industries chief Mark Hutchinson
  • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
    BHP Group Ltd
    BHP announces record cash return on surging coal prices

    Australian miner benefits as war in Ukraine crimps Russian fuel exports

    A silhouette of a figure and mineral imitation in front of the BHP logo
  • Monday, 15 August, 2022
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto rebuffed in plan to take control of Mongolian copper project

    Canadian partner says $2.7bn buyout offer for one of the world’s biggest deposits is insufficient

    A worker walks through a tunnel at the Oyu Tolgoi mine
  • Monday, 15 August, 2022
    Thungela Resources Ltd
    Thungela to pay bumper dividend as coal price soars

    South African business spun out of Anglo American reveals 4,000% rise in profits

    Thungela chief executive July Ndlovu
  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    Antofagasta PLC
    Miner Antofagasta warns of copper project challenges under Chile tax rise plan

    UK-listed group says new investments in metal would be reviewed if country’s government approves tax and royalty increases

    A copper miner at work in Chile
  • Monday, 8 August, 2022
    BHP Group Ltd
    Oz Minerals rebuffs BHP’s $5.8bn offer

    Board says mining group’s bid ‘significantly’ undervalues Australian company

    A tonne of nickel powder produced by BHP
  • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto signals end to era of record mining returns

    Anglo-Australian group reports 29% drop in half-year earnings as commodity prices fall

    A bulk carrier moored beside a jetty at a Rio Tinto Group port facility in Dampier, Western Australia
  • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
    News in-depthMining
    Mining outlook darkens as twin threats loom

    Investors set for last round of bumper payouts as margins are squeezed by falling commodity prices and cost inflation

    A mine operated by Rio Tinto in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
  • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
    Gold Fields Inc.
    Gold Fields defends $5.2bn Yamana bid

    South African miner says Canadian target at risk of being snapped up by rivals

    Gold Fields CEO Chris Griffith
  • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
    Anglo American PLC
    De Beers boosted by sanctions imposed on Russian rival

    Diamond sales have held up thanks to pent up demand from consumers following the pandemic

    A De Beers’ clerk grades diamonds from Botswana diamonds mines at the De Beers office
  • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
    Antofagasta PLC
    Copper price bounces higher as miners cut production forecasts

    Industrial metal hit a 20-month low last week as recession fears gripped commodity markets

    Los Pelambres mine in Chile
  • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
    BHP Group Ltd
    BHP warns of slowing global growth as monetary policy tightens

    Falling prices and mounting recession fears take toll on world’s biggest miners

    A freight train carrying iron ore travels towards Port Hedland, Australia
  • Monday, 18 July, 2022
    InterviewMongolia
    Mongolia says Russia-China gas pipeline will break ground in 2024

    Prime minister Luvsannamsrai tells FT that Rio Tinto’s Gobi Desert copper mine is on track

    Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov meets Mongolian prime minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai
  • Friday, 15 July, 2022
    Commodities
    Copper rout worsens as recession fears hammer commodities markets

    Price of key industrial metal returns to levels last seen in late 2020

    Copper rods can be seen at a Vietnamese cable factory
  • Friday, 15 July, 2022
    EU energy
    EU cuts down Russian coal imports ahead of bloc-wide ban

    Move to limit reliance on fuel from sanctioned country adds to fears about energy crisis

  • Friday, 15 July, 2022
    InterviewAndrew Forrest
    Mining mogul Andrew Forrest doubles down on green hydrogen

    Billionaire boss says he will transform iron ore giant Fortescue Metals Group into a clean energy leader

  • Friday, 15 July, 2022
    Hydrogen power
    EU clean energy targets risk being missed as rates rise

    Developers of large hydrogen projects need clarity on subsidies and a pipeline of committed customers

    a man works on cells for hydrogen generation modules at Germany’s Sunfire firm
  • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
    Petropavlovsk PLC
    Petropavlovsk shares suspended after indebted miner files for administration

    Russian gold producer has struggled to refinance after UK imposed sanctions on main lender Gazprombank

    An aerial view of the Pokrovskiy hard-rock gold mine, owned by Petropavlovsk
  • Friday, 8 July, 2022
    BHP Group Ltd
    BHP will face £5bn High Court lawsuit over Brazilian dam disaster

    Some 202,600 claimants are suing over country’s biggest environmental disaster

  • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
    Batteries
    Metals industry opposes proposed EU toxic label on battery component lithium

    European Chemicals Agency seeks to classify the metal as a reproductive toxin

    An employee assembles lithium-ion battery modules at a BMW car plant in Germany
  • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
    Commodities
    Commodities slump as recession fears stamp out fierce rally

    Raw materials from grains to oil have lost their lustre, with hedge funds betting on further falls

    Workers feed harvested wheat into a thresher on a farm in Egypt
  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    GMK Noril'skiy nikel' OAO
    Norilsk and Rusal in talks to forge $60bn Russian metals champion

    Nickel and aluminium producers say combination would give groups ‘extra stability against sanctions’

    Vladimir Potanin
  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    EU energy
    Europe power prices hit new high in wake of Russian gas supply cuts

    Prices quadruple in a year exacerbated by maintenance problems at French nuclear plants

    The nuclear power plant of Nogent-sur-Seine, east of Paris
  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Copper
    Copper trades below $8,000 a tonne as recession fears take hold

    World’s most important industrial metal had struck a record high above $10,600 earlier this year

    A copper smelter in Chile
  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Gazprom OAO
    Gazprom shares plunge 25% after dividend blocked

    Russian state-backed gas group had proposed record payout

    A worker inspects drilling pipes at a Gazprom facility in Russia
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