Iron Ore, Copper, Equities, Mint Finance

Umang Agrawal

Iron Ore, Copper, Equities

Deep Fundamental Analysis

Mint Finance

Mint Finance's investment research blends deep fundamental analysis with technical & quant insights. Investment strategies straddle across multiple asset classes with risk management embedded into every trade to deliver an outsized reward-to-risk ratio.

Mint Finance's research is centered around three key themes. First, energy transition and climate change. Second, artificial intelligence. Third, shifting world order with its impact across politics and monetary economics.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Jimblebar inventory drawdowns suggest Chinese mills are rotating back toward BHP’s higher-volume Pilbara blend after temporary feedstock adjustments.</li>
<li>BHP is expanding copper production while several global mining peers continue cutting guidance and struggling with operational execution pressures.</li>
<li>Markets are increasingly rewarding BHP’s scale, execution and commodity exposure through stronger earnings revisions and price target upgrades. </li>
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Jimblebar inventory drawdowns suggest Chinese mills are rotating back toward BHP’s higher-volume Pilbara blend after temporary feedstock adjustments.
BHP is expanding copper production while several global mining peers continue cutting guidance and struggling with operational execution pressures.
Markets are increasingly rewarding BHP’s scale, execution and commodity exposure through stronger earnings revisions and price target upgrades. 


The Market Repricing Around BHP May Only Be Getting Started

Equity, Bottom-up Analyst, Investics Research

Sameer Taneja

Equity, Bottom-up Analyst

Investics Research

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Equity Bottom-up Research

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/freeport-mcmoran-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:12491:1" rel="noopener">Freeport McMoRan's (FCX US)</a> Grasberg mine, which was scheduled to return to full production in 2027, <a href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/freeport-indonesia-adjusts-grasberg-production-recovery-full-resumption-delayed-until-2028-6109926" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has now pushed its recovery to </a><a href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/freeport-indonesia-adjusts-grasberg-production-recovery-full-resumption-delayed-until-2028-6109926" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2028</a>. The mine is running at 40-50% utilization.</li>
<li>Further pressure on the cost side as Indonesia proposed a step-up in royalties in gold, copper, and tin mining. We are already witnessing <a href="https://news.metal.com/newscontent/103887752-SMM-Copper-Flash-High-Diesel-Power-Generation-Costs-in-DRC-Put-SX-EW-Copper-Smelters-Under-Pressure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rising fuel prices</a>/<a href="https://www.spglobal.com/energy/en/news-research/latest-news/metals/041526-chinas-sulfuric-acid-restrictions-set-to-squeeze-miners" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lower sulfuric acid supplies</a>. </li>
<li>We see that elevated copper prices are resulting in great Q1 results from <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/antofagasta-plc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:21814:1" rel="noopener">Antofagasta PLC (ANTO LN)</a> / <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/southern-copper-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16279:1" rel="noopener">Southern Copper (SCCO US)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lundin-mining-corp-92352503-3781-4fcb-a4db-62e6f6343783" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:25356:1" rel="noopener">Lundin Mining (LUN CN)</a> </li>
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Freeport McMoRan's (FCX US) Grasberg mine, which was scheduled to return to full production in 2027, has now pushed its recovery to 2028. The mine is running at 40-50% utilization.
Further pressure on the cost side as Indonesia proposed a step-up in royalties in gold, copper, and tin mining. We are already witnessing rising fuel prices/lower sulfuric acid supplies. 
We see that elevated copper prices are resulting in great Q1 results from Antofagasta PLC (ANTO LN) / Southern Copper (SCCO US) and Lundin Mining (LUN CN) 


Grasberg Slips, Copper Rips: Sulfuric Acid Shortages and Diesel Costs Add Fuel

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

All regions—both geographic and economic—share a common through-line: bullish technicals. And we expect this trend to continue, an outlook supported by a cast of multi-year base patterns (esp. in Europe and Japan), weakness in defensive sectors, and strength in cyclicals. In today’s report we highlight the follow themes:<ul><li>Buy energy, miners. Discussed above... see pages 3-6</li><li>Autos are strengthening. Developed market auto stocks, a lagging group for the past three years, present an opportunity. Names like BMW (BMW-DE), Ford (F), Peugeot (UG-FR), and Toyota (TM) are breaking out/bullishly inflecting... see pages 7-8</li></ul>

All regions—both geographic and economic—share a common through-line: bullish technicals. And we expect this trend to continue, an outlook supported by a cast of multi-year base patterns (esp. in Europe and Japan), weakness in defensive sectors, and strength in cyclicals. In today’s report we highlight the follow themes:Buy energy, miners. Discussed above... see pages 3-6Autos are strengthening. Developed market auto stocks, a lagging group for the past three years, present an opportunity. Names like BMW (BMW-DE), Ford (F), Peugeot (UG-FR), and Toyota (TM) are breaking out/bullishly inflecting... see pages 7-8

Int'l Compass: Inflation Trade Is Gathering Steam -- Buy Energy, Miners, Autos; Stay Overweight EM

A wave of breakouts is visible throughout the global mining industry, where stocks are responding to long-term trend reversals in base metals, including aluminum, copper, and zinc. This is one of our favorite themes, one that we have highlighted extensively over the past several months, especially in our weekly International Compass But is it too late to add exposure? No. Most names, including Alcoa (AA), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Norsk Hydro (NHY-NO), are just beginning to break out this week.In today’s report we highlight a selection of actionable charts within this theme, sorted by market capitalization.

A wave of breakouts is visible throughout the global mining industry, where stocks are responding to long-term trend reversals in base metals, including aluminum, copper, and zinc. This is one of our favorite themes, one that we have highlighted extensively over the past several months, especially in our weekly International Compass  But is it too late to add exposure? No. Most names, including Alcoa (AA), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Norsk Hydro (NHY-NO), are just beginning to break out this week.In today’s report we highlight a selection of actionable charts within this theme, sorted by market capitalization.

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<li>Corporations and countries continue their pursuit of critical minerals, such as copper. The failed <a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/bhp-abandons-anglo-american-approach-says-own-growth-plan-compelling-2025-11-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BHP-Anglo merger </a>was followed by the successful <a href="https://www.angloamerican.com/investors/anglo-american-teck-merger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anglo-Teck</a> merger and, more recently, the revived <a href="https://www.afr.com/rich-list/ivan-glasenberg-s-wealth-tops-21b-on-rio-glencore-mega-merger-talks-20260114-p5ntvp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rio-Glencore merger</a> talks.</li>
<li>Following actions involving Venezuela and recent interest in Greenland, the Trump administration has more directly aligned itself with broader efforts to secure strategic critical mineral reserves.</li>
<li>Amplified by the recent COMEX copper inventory build (&gt;25% of U.S. demand), current market dynamics reflect heightened speculative activity, even as copper prices paused for the first time last week.</li>
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Corporations and countries continue their pursuit of critical minerals, such as copper. The failed BHP-Anglo merger was followed by the successful Anglo-Teck merger and, more recently, the revived Rio-Glencore merger talks.
Following actions involving Venezuela and recent interest in Greenland, the Trump administration has more directly aligned itself with broader efforts to secure strategic critical mineral reserves.
Amplified by the recent COMEX copper inventory build (&gt;25% of U.S. demand), current market dynamics reflect heightened speculative activity, even as copper prices paused for the first time last week.


Copper Takes a Breather, but Animal Spirits Poised to Take Over in Greenland Land Grab

Canada

Lundin Mining Corporation is a diversified base metals mining company with operations in Chile, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and the United States, producing copper, zinc, lead and nickel. The Company holds interest in the Tenke Fungurume copper/cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a cobalt refinery located in Kokkola, Finland.

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Lundin Mining (LUN CN)

The Market Repricing Around BHP May Only Be Getting Started

Operational momentum, tightening copper markets and sustained earnings upgrades continue strengthening BHP’s position within the global mining sector.

Mint Finance

Grasberg Slips, Copper Rips: Sulfuric Acid Shortages and Diesel Costs Add Fuel

Bullish on copper for 2026/2027: Grasberg delays, rising diesel costs, and sulfuric acid shortages tighten supply, widening the deficit.

Sameer Taneja

Int'l Compass: Inflation Trade Is Gathering Steam -- Buy Energy, Miners, Autos; Stay Overweight EM

All regions—both geographic and economic—share a common through-line: bullish technicals. And we expect this trend to continue, an outlook...

Vermilion Research

Global Miners Are Breaking Out -- Buy

A wave of breakouts is visible throughout the global mining industry, where stocks are responding to long-term trend reversals in base metals,...

Vermilion Research

Copper Takes a Breather, but Animal Spirits Poised to Take Over in Greenland Land Grab

The pursuit of critical minerals by corporations and countries (China, USA) is driving animal spirits in the copper market. We highlight our top...

Sameer Taneja

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