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AMC said in a statement it would invest $27.9 million in cash in Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. HYMC 9.35% Chief Executive Adam Aron said on Twitter, “AMC is…

Rio Tinto RIO -2.85% PLC offered to pay roughly $2.7 billion to buy out minority shareholders in Canada’s Turquoise Hill TRQ -2.52%…

The controlling shareholder of Rusal, 486 34.08% Russia’s largest aluminum producer, said it was exploring a separation of the company’s international operations and…

Covering 70% of the Earth’s surface, the ocean already acts as a giant carbon sink, removing about a quarter of the carbon dioxide produced each year by human activity, scientists estimate. Atmospheric carbon is absorbed through the…

SÃO PAULO—Brazil is searching for new fertilizer suppliers as the war in Ukraine threatens to cut off shipments to one of the world’s breadbaskets, with potential ripple effects on already high global food inflation.The Latin American…

Companies that divest from their Russian holdings will have to book hefty write-downs and face complex accounting judgments, experts say.Businesses including BP PLC, Shell PLC and…

Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises Inc., a Chicago-based restaurant group, has added a 3% “processing fee” to checks at many of its restaurants. Harley-Davidson Inc. added a charge last year to its motorcycles…

ADELAIDE, Australia—KoBold Metals, a startup backed by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures that aims to use artificial intelligence to find metals needed for the electric-vehicle boom, raised $192.5…

HONG KONG—A prolonged slowdown in China’s economic growth could hurt some multinational companies and commodity producers for years to come, casting a shadow over the global recovery from the pandemic—but likely not derailing it…

CALIPATRIA, Calif.—In the U.S. hunt for lithium, an essential component of the batteries that power electric vehicles and cellphones, one big untapped source might be bubbling under a giant lake in Southern California. The U.S. currently…