Amazon digs deep for AI gold as copper mine partnership fuels massive data center expansion

Amazon Web Services signed a two-year copper deal with Rio Tinto to supply AI data centers from an Arizona mine, expecting to ...
DatacenterDynamics

Rio Tinto to supply AWS with low-carbon copper for US data centers

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to supply low-carbon copper produced ...

Amazon is buying copper harvested by bacteria for its data centers

Amazon’s data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that’s leaching metal from ores using ...
The Economist

The race for copper has brought a wave of mining mega-mergers

Mining mergers are back in style. Rio Tinto, the industry’s fourth-most valuable company, has confirmed it is in talks to ...
Nasdaq

Microbial Mining? Endolith Makes Copper Recovery Breakthrough with Bioleaching Tech

Endolith has reported a major advance in copper extraction as it pushes the frontiers of microbial science. In collaboration with BHP’s (ASX:BHP,NYSE:BHP,LSE:BHP) innovation arm, Think & Act ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Utah’s massive open-pit copper mine wants to expand. Here’s a look inside.

From a viewpoint at about 6,190 feet above sea level, a giant hole in the Oquirrh Mountains stretches two and a half miles wide and ¾ of a mile deep. Trucks with tires bigger than a sedan look like ...
Open Access Government

Reimagining mining for a net-zero future

Carbon-negative mining offers a promising path to meeting the mineral demands of the energy transition while shrinking the ...
Seeking Alpha

Why Copper? Why COPX?

Increasing demand from structural drivers like electrification, urbanization, and artificial intelligence, combined with supply challenges, could result in steadier demand and higher prices for copper ...