While the oil & gas conglomerates are often in the public eye , the basic materials miners are the elephants in a vastly interconnected world
The established global miners are listed in London and New-York – BHP Group
Large Chinese companies, quoted on the OTC market, are national strategic standard bearers, titans in the league of BHP (mkt cap > $ 200 bn), Rio Tinto (mkt cap > $160 bn) or Glencore (mkt cap> $90 bn)
- China's Zijin Mining (ADR)
is engaged in the extraction of copper and specialty metals in China and in Africa (market cap > $100 bn) - China's China Shenhua Energy (ADR)
is a very large coal miner dwarfing U.S. producers with a $155 bn market cap - China Coal Energy Co Ltd (market cap > $30 bn) is not traded on U.S. market
Major U.S. coal miners benefit from support of the current American administration
- Core Natural Resources
- Peabody Energy
- Alliance Resource Partners L.P.
- Alpha Metallurgical Resources
Commodity trading and logistics houses are the other side of the energy and materials business, made up mostly by private companies – Mercuria, Trafigura, Vitol and Gunvor with revenues in the range of $50-$100bn
Major actors of globalization, with tightly knit relationships, the miners and the traders are facing the headwinds of resurgent national interests, keen to question – and in some cases to condemn – global networks and agreements
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However, accounting fundamentals are not available on OTC shares - performance and volatility must be evaluated with care because a poor trading record may result in faulty data
- Anglo-American
is not charted because of a faulty price record (false share price on May 30, 2025 resulting in incorrect volatility computation) - Russian Norilsk Nickel ADRs were delisted from OTC markets in May 2023