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Glencore
Swiss-British commodity giant, second-largest cobalt miner globally. Operates Mutanda and Kamoto Copper Company mines in DRC, plus Murrin Murrin (Australia). Produced 38,200 tonnes cobalt in 2024.
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Glencore Bowen Basin Coal Operations — Queensland, Australia →
AUQueensland · mine
Glencore's Queensland metallurgical coal operations including Hail Creek, Oaky Creek, Collinsville. After acquiring Teck's Elk Valley coal assets in 2024, Glencore became the world's largest seaborne met coal supplier (~18-20%). Bowen Basin operations export via Dalrymple Bay and Abbot Point terminals.
Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) →
CDLualaba Province, DRC · mine
Underground copper-cobalt mine in DRC. Glencore operates; cobalt produced as byproduct.
Mutanda Mine →
CDLualaba Province, DRC · mine
One of the world's largest cobalt mines. Voluntarily closed 2019-2021 due to low cobalt prices; reopened 2022.
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Metals + Minerals Mining and Trading
55%Coal and Energy Commodities
25%Agricultural Commodities
10%Commodity Trading
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Origin2023
Glencore was founded as Marc Rich + Co. AG in 1974 in Zug, Switzerland by Marc Rich, a commodities trader who had built his fortune at Philipp Brothers (PhiBro). Rich fled the United States in 1983 after being indicted for tax evasion and trading oil with Iran during the hostage crisis — becoming one of America's most wanted white-collar fugitives. His ex-wife Denise Rich made large donations to the Clinton Library and Democratic Party; Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich on his last day in office (January 20, 2001) in one of the most controversial presidential pardons in US history. Rich's company had been renamed Glencore in 1994 after a management buyout. Glencore went public in 2011 at a $60 billion valuation on the London Stock Exchange. In 2022, Glencore paid $1.5 billion in criminal settlements to the US DOJ, UK Serious Fraud Office, and Brazil for bribery and market manipulation in DRC, Venezuela, Nigeria, and Ivory Coast — the largest commodity trader corruption settlement in history. The company founded by a fugitive paid its corruption fine and continued operating as one of the world's most important commodity suppliers.
Glencore PLC ↗Did you know2023
Glencore is the world's largest seaborne thermal coal trader (~18% of global seaborne thermal coal) AND simultaneously the world's second-largest cobalt producer (~14% of global supply used in EV batteries). Glencore uniquely profits from both sides of the energy transition: they sell the coal that generates the electricity that currently powers the world, AND they mine the cobalt that goes into the EV batteries intended to replace petroleum in transportation. Glencore CEO Gary Nagle has argued that the world needs both coal for baseload power during the energy transition AND cobalt for the EV batteries at the end of it. ESG investors and climate activists targeted Glencore's coal mining as incompatible with Paris Agreement goals. Glencore's response: divesting the coal business would simply transfer ownership to non-ESG buyers, not reduce global coal supply. The same company holds the largest single-firm positions in both the major input to carbon-intensive electricity generation AND the major input to zero-emission vehicle batteries.
Glencore PLC ↗