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Commodities

Copper, lithium, grain, cocoa and gold: the raw materials, the mines and fields they come from, and the traders in between.

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Live: Copper Jumps After a Landslide Cuts an Andean Mine Road
2 min

Live: Copper Jumps After a Landslide Cuts an Andean Mine Road

Copper's Quiet Squeeze: Why Smelters Are Paying Miners to Take Their Ore
3 min

Copper's Quiet Squeeze: Why Smelters Are Paying Miners to Take Their Ore

Two and a Half Kilometres of Iron: Riding the Longest Ore Train Video
3 min

Two and a Half Kilometres of Iron: Riding the Longest Ore Train

The Bean Counters: How a Warehouse Receipt Became a Trading Weapon
3 min

The Bean Counters: How a Warehouse Receipt Became a Trading Weapon

The Gold Is Moving East, One Pallet at a Time
3 min

The Gold Is Moving East, One Pallet at a Time

The Grain Corridor, Told by the People Who Load It Audio
3 min

The Grain Corridor, Told by the People Who Load It

White Gold, Blue Ponds: A Year at the Edge of a Lithium Brine Field
6 min

White Gold, Blue Ponds: A Year at the Edge of a Lithium Brine Field

The Copper Price Nobody Believed
3 min

The Copper Price Nobody Believed

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