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Neil Hume

Natural Resources Editor

Neil Hume runs the FT’s coverage of natural resources, with a special focus on metals and mining including the powerful trading houses that moves raw materials around the globe.

He was previously the FT’s Australian Pacific correspondent based in Sydney, the editor of FT Alphaville and a senior stock market correspondent.

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  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Top Rio Tinto investors vote against pay report after cave destruction

    Norway’s $1.3tn oil fund and UK local government pension fund make move at annual shareholders’ meeting

  • Wednesday, 7 April, 2021
    Vitol Holding BV
    Vitol made record profits during 2020 oil swings

    World’s largest independent crude trader rebounds from first-quarter plunge as net income soars to almost $3bn

  • Monday, 5 April, 2021
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    Commodities groups investigate web domains linked to GFG Alliance

    FT uncovers further indications of companies with ties to Sanjeev Gupta’s troubled steel empire

  • Sunday, 4 April, 2021
    Anglo American PLC
    Development chief departs Anglo’s Woodsmith project

    Simon Carter leaves after five years at the helm

  • Friday, 2 April, 2021
    FT Magazine
    ‘Don’t murder this place’: the sacred Native American land at risk

    Photographer Samuel James captures the landscape of Oak Flat, Arizona, as a mining giant’s plans threaten it

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    Renewable energy
    Gunvor joins clean energy push

    Oil traders plough billions into renewables in preparation for shift away from oil and gas

  • Monday, 29 March, 2021
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto faces backlash over former chief’s exit package

    Proxy adviser ISS says miner should have used powers to cut ‘performance shares’ held by Jean-Sébastien Jacques

  • Monday, 29 March, 2021
    BSG Resources Ltd
    Legal fight between Vale and Beny Steinmetz takes new twist

    Businessman claims miner hid from shareholders the risks of multibillion-dollar deal

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    KAZ Minerals PLC
    Kaz Minerals bidders raise offer to £4.1bn

    Nova Resources seeks to win over minority investors in its battle to take copper miner private

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  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto accused of concealing real reasons for Mongolia mine delay

    US hedge fund’s lawsuit claims miner knew Oyu Tolgoi project was in trouble months before telling investors

  • Tuesday, 23 March, 2021
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio to form indigenous advisory group after rock cave blasts

    Chief Jakob Stausholm pledges to ‘focus on real engagement with our communities’

  • Wednesday, 17 March, 2021
    Ferrexpo PLC
    Miner Ferrexpo declares bumper payout

    Annual profits surge fuelled by higher iron ore prices and production

  • Monday, 15 March, 2021
    Mining
    Glencore completes changing of the guard

    Top coal, nickel and copper traders to leave as outgoing CEO Ivan Glasenberg concludes transition

  • Monday, 15 March, 2021
    Industrial metals
    Iron ore slips from highs as China’s pollution crackdown stirs worries

    Steelmaking ingredient has fallen as traders brace for measures to cut carbon emissions

  • Sunday, 14 March, 2021
    Commodities
    Zambia’s state miner on lookout for deals

    ZCCM aims to take ‘strategic’ stakes and operate assets

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Apollo ends talks to buy parts of Greensill Capital

    US private equity firm was interested in finance group’s intellectual property, IT systems and Finacity arm

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    Copper
    Suspects remanded in Turkish case over alleged copper heist

    Mercuria claims fraudsters swapped metal for copper-coloured stones and cement

  • Thursday, 11 March, 2021
    Glencore
    Glencore chairman Tony Hayward to step down next year

    Group reveals new chief to get $1.8m salary plus target-related bonus, taking annual pay up to $10.4m

  • Thursday, 11 March, 2021
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC
    Shell appoints former BHP chief Mackenzie as chairman

    Move comes as oil group seeks to recover from pandemic and shift to cleaner fuels

  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    Mining
    Friedland eyes Guinea’s ‘caviar of iron ore’ with $200m fundraising

    Billionaire’s exploration group aims for initial production of 15m tonnes a year

  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
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    The race to scale up green hydrogen

    Long heralded as an alternative to fossil fuels, can the gas really help solve the world’s dirtiest energy problems?  

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    Mining
    Rio Tinto set to start negotiations over Mongolian mine

    Row could derail expansion of giant Oyu Tolgoi copper mine

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    Capital markets
    US government bond decline resumes after Fed’s Jay Powell speaks

    Tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slides more than 2% as borrowing costs ratchet higher

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto chairman to stand down amid outcry over cave blasts

    Simon Thompson admits failings after miner’s destruction of sacred Aboriginal site last year

  • Monday, 1 March, 2021
    Copper
    Freeport signals enduring cash bonanza from copper price boom

    Top listed producer’s chief expects supply constraints and robust demand to persist

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