Gold ₹15,465.27/g ▲ +0.00% Silver ₹236.54/g ▲ +0.00% Platinum ₹5,373.41/g ▲ +0.00% Palladium ₹4,043.13/g ▲ +0.00% Rhodium ₹24,633.32/g ▲ +0.00% Copper ₹1,267.24/kg ▲ +0.00% Aluminium ₹282.47/kg ▲ +0.00% Cobalt ₹4,900.93/kg ▲ +0.00% Gallium ₹23,434.80/kg ▲ +0.00% Indium ₹71,014.54/kg ▲ +0.00% Iron Ore ₹8.29/kg ▲ +0.00% Lead ₹165.04/kg ▲ +0.00% Lithium ₹1,956.13/kg ▲ +0.00% Molybdenum ₹7,973.00/kg ▲ +0.00% Nickel ₹1,460.35/kg ▲ +0.10% Neodymium ₹12,330.69/kg ▲ +0.00% Tin ₹4,862.97/kg ▲ +0.00% Tellurium ₹10,393.95/kg ▲ +0.00% Uranium ₹16,622.65/kg ▲ +0.00% Zinc ₹327.11/kg ▲ +0.00% Crude Oil (Brent) ₹8,456.42/bbl ▲ +0.00% Crude Oil (WTI) ₹7,870.56/bbl ▲ +0.01% Gasoline ₹303.61/gal ▲ +0.00% Natural Gas ₹259.87/MMBtu ▲ +0.00%

Company

BHP

An Australian multinational mining company and one of the world's largest producers of copper and iron ore.

Covered in 1 MetalsCost.com News Intelligence article, most recently on August 15, 2026.

Coverage

It Takes 50,000 Tons of Copper to Build One AI Data Center, So Miners Are Now Mining Their Own Waste

Building one hyperscale AI data center takes about 50,000 tons of copper. With new US mines averaging 23 years to reach production, miners including BHP and Rio Tinto are now testing recovery of copper from decades-old mining waste instead.

Bullish · 16 hours ago