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Rio Tinto’s use of AI is not centred on one futuristic mine. It sits inside a large operating system spread across the Pilbara in Western Australia, where the company now runs 18 iron ore mines, 4 port terminals and a rail network spanning nearly 2,000 km. The point of the technology is simple: keep ore moving more consistently, reduce downtime and make decisions faster across the whole chain rather than at one site at a time. What makes Rio different is that it has linked mi

Copper Supply Is Tightening Global copper demand is about 28 million tonnes per year  today. Most long-term forecasts point to 40–42 million tonnes by 2040 , which means the system needs to add roughly 12–14 million tonnes of new annual supply  over the next 15 years. That’s not a small adjustment. It’s the equivalent of building multiple large-scale mining regions from scratch. What’s driving demand Copper demand is increasing because more of the economy is running through e

For most of the past decade, commodities were largely ignored. Capital moved into technology, software, and financial assets while industries that powered the real world - energy, mining and raw materials - saw investment fall away. That is now starting to reverse. After the last cycle peaked around 2011–2014, spending across the sector dropped sharply. According to the International Energy Agency, upstream oil and gas investment fell from over $700 billion in 2014 to roughly