Tungsten — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Tungsten is the metal that cuts every other metal. It has the highest melting point of any metal and, bonded to carbon as tungsten carbide, it becomes the working edge of nearly every drill bit, milling insert and mining … Published Sep 27, 2026 · 71 min read · TungstenBase MetalsGuide
Iron — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Iron is civilisation’s structural metal — the element that becomes steel, and therefore the skeleton of every building, bridge, ship, car and machine on Earth. By tonnage the iron ore market dwarfs every other metal: 2.6 … Published Sep 6, 2026 · 48 min read · IronBase MetalsGuide
VA Vale (VALE) — Stock Analysis 2026 [3.8] Vale is the world’s largest iron ore producer and one of its lowest-cost, sitting on the high-grade Carajás orebody in the Amazon — and, increasingly, a copper-growth story wrapped around that cash engine. The thesis in … Last Update Aug 23, 2026 · 42 min read · IronCopperBase MetalsCompany Analysis
GL Glencore (GLEN) — Stock Analysis 2026 [3.5] Glencore is the most unusual of the mining majors: half a diversified miner — copper, cobalt, zinc, nickel and one of the largest coal businesses on earth — and half a global commodity-trading house whose Marketing arm … Last Update Aug 23, 2026 · 45 min read · CopperCoalBase MetalsCompany Analysis
RT Rio Tinto (RIO) — Stock Analysis 2026 [3.9] Rio Tinto is the second-largest diversified miner on earth, and for most of its modern life a machine for turning Western Australian iron ore into dividends. The thesis in one line: a mature, tier-1 Pilbara iron ore … Last Update Aug 19, 2026 · 37 min read · IronCopperBase MetalsCompany Analysis
FR Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) — Stock Analysis 2026 [4.1] Freeport-McMoRan is the largest publicly-traded copper producer in the world outside the state giants, and the purest large-cap bet a US investor can take on the metal that electrifies. The thesis in one line: a … Last Update Aug 19, 2026 · 33 min read · CopperGoldBase MetalsCompany Analysis
Nickel — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Nickel is the metal that makes stainless steel stainless — and, more recently, the energy-dense heart of the nickel-rich batteries that power long-range electric vehicles. No major metal market has been remade as fast or … Published Aug 16, 2026 · 52 min read · NickelBase MetalsGuide
AM Altius Minerals (ALS) — Stock Analysis 2026 [4.3] Altius is the connoisseur’s royalty company: a diversified Newfoundland-based book of century-life Saskatchewan potash, Chapada copper, IOC iron ore and US renewable-energy royalties, run for decades by a founder-CEO … Last Update Aug 14, 2026 · 34 min read · CopperBase MetalsCompany Analysis
DR Deterra Royalties (DRR) — Stock Analysis 2026 [3.7] Deterra spent FY2025 doing what it was built to do: collecting a royalty cheque on one of the world’s best iron-ore mines and paying most of it out to shareholders — while taking its first real step beyond that single … Last Update Aug 14, 2026 · 31 min read · IronBase MetalsCompany Analysis
BG BHP Group (BHP) — Stock Analysis 2026 [4.3] BHP is the largest diversified miner on earth, and the clearest single bet on the two commodities that dig the future: the iron ore that builds and the copper that electrifies. The thesis in one line: a portfolio … Last Update Aug 11, 2026 · 42 min read · IronCopperBase MetalsCompany Analysis
Copper — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Copper is the metal the modern economy is wired with, and the one the energy transition cannot do without — every electric motor, grid cable, data-centre and solar farm runs on it. In 2024–2025 copper repeatedly set … Published Jun 28, 2026 · 46 min read · CopperBase MetalsGuide
Tungsten — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Tungsten is the metal that cuts every other metal. It has the highest melting point of any metal and, bonded to carbon as tungsten carbide, it becomes the working edge of nearly every drill bit, milling insert and mining … Published Sep 27, 2026 · 71 min read · TungstenBase MetalsGuide
Iron — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Iron is civilisation’s structural metal — the element that becomes steel, and therefore the skeleton of every building, bridge, ship, car and machine on Earth. By tonnage the iron ore market dwarfs every other metal: 2.6 … Published Sep 6, 2026 · 48 min read · IronBase MetalsGuide
VA Vale (VALE) — Stock Analysis 2026 [3.8] Vale is the world’s largest iron ore producer and one of its lowest-cost, sitting on the high-grade Carajás orebody in the Amazon — and, increasingly, a copper-growth story wrapped around that cash engine. The thesis in … Last Update Aug 23, 2026 · 42 min read · IronCopperBase MetalsCompany Analysis
GL Glencore (GLEN) — Stock Analysis 2026 [3.5] Glencore is the most unusual of the mining majors: half a diversified miner — copper, cobalt, zinc, nickel and one of the largest coal businesses on earth — and half a global commodity-trading house whose Marketing arm … Last Update Aug 23, 2026 · 45 min read · CopperCoalBase MetalsCompany Analysis
FR Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) — Stock Analysis 2026 [4.1] Freeport-McMoRan is the largest publicly-traded copper producer in the world outside the state giants, and the purest large-cap bet a US investor can take on the metal that electrifies. The thesis in one line: a … Last Update Aug 19, 2026 · 33 min read · CopperGoldBase MetalsCompany Analysis
RT Rio Tinto (RIO) — Stock Analysis 2026 [3.9] Rio Tinto is the second-largest diversified miner on earth, and for most of its modern life a machine for turning Western Australian iron ore into dividends. The thesis in one line: a mature, tier-1 Pilbara iron ore … Last Update Aug 19, 2026 · 37 min read · IronCopperBase MetalsCompany Analysis
Nickel — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Nickel is the metal that makes stainless steel stainless — and, more recently, the energy-dense heart of the nickel-rich batteries that power long-range electric vehicles. No major metal market has been remade as fast or … Published Aug 16, 2026 · 52 min read · NickelBase MetalsGuide
AM Altius Minerals (ALS) — Stock Analysis 2026 [4.3] Altius is the connoisseur’s royalty company: a diversified Newfoundland-based book of century-life Saskatchewan potash, Chapada copper, IOC iron ore and US renewable-energy royalties, run for decades by a founder-CEO … Last Update Aug 14, 2026 · 34 min read · CopperBase MetalsCompany Analysis
DR Deterra Royalties (DRR) — Stock Analysis 2026 [3.7] Deterra spent FY2025 doing what it was built to do: collecting a royalty cheque on one of the world’s best iron-ore mines and paying most of it out to shareholders — while taking its first real step beyond that single … Last Update Aug 14, 2026 · 31 min read · IronBase MetalsCompany Analysis
BG BHP Group (BHP) — Stock Analysis 2026 [4.3] BHP is the largest diversified miner on earth, and the clearest single bet on the two commodities that dig the future: the iron ore that builds and the copper that electrifies. The thesis in one line: a portfolio … Last Update Aug 11, 2026 · 42 min read · IronCopperBase MetalsCompany Analysis
Copper — A Complete Market Guide (2026) Copper is the metal the modern economy is wired with, and the one the energy transition cannot do without — every electric motor, grid cable, data-centre and solar farm runs on it. In 2024–2025 copper repeatedly set … Published Jun 28, 2026 · 46 min read · CopperBase MetalsGuide
