Sponsors 2026

Los Azules is one of the world’s largest undeveloped copper projects, located in San Juan, Argentina, and developed by McEwen Copper. Over the past four years, the project has moved rapidly from an updated Preliminary Economic Assessment and extensive drilling programs to an advanced stage of development, with more than 120,000 meters drilled across three seasons.

The past year marked a major step forward. Los Azules secured its environmental approval for construction and operation, became the first copper project in Argentina to receive full approval under the Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI), completed its Feasibility Study, and entered into a collaboration agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group. These milestones provide a strong technical, regulatory, and institutional foundation for the project’s next stage.

The 2025 Feasibility Study outlines a 21-year mine life, with average production of approximately 148,200 tonnes of copper per year and 204,800 tonnes annually during the first five years. Los Azules is designed to produce 99.99% pure LME Grade A copper cathodes directly in Argentina, using renewable power, significantly less water than conventional milling, and no conventional tailings dam.

As global copper demand expands with electrification, energy infrastructure, digitalization, and the energy transition, Los Azules represents an opportunity for Argentina to transform its world-class mineral resources into refined copper production, exports, investment, and long-term regional development.

Quoreka is the operating system for commodity-driven business. Where most platforms stop at the trading desk, Quoreka runs the entire value chain - from CTRM and ETRM for your trading and risk teams, to bulk handling, supply chain, stockyard and warehouse management for the physical operation that makes every trade real. Legacy platforms were built for a world of single-commodity, on-premise stability. Quoreka was built for what trading looks like now: multi-asset portfolios, cross-commodity strategies, and physical supply chains that span continents. Cloud-native platform. Every stage of the trade lifecycle. Any market you enter. Built for the firms that move what the world runs on.

Jaguar Resources and Capital Pte. Ltd. (“Jaguar”) incorporated in 2012, is Singapore based trading entity dealing primarily in ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal. Jaguar facilities the circular economy by connecting scrapyards, processors, steel mills and other industries inclosed loop system for recycled metals. Jaguar ensures quality control, provides cost anddelivery optimization to its customers. Jaguar has presence in Singapore, United Kingdom, India, Australia, Vietnam, Bangladeshand Dominic Republic.CSR Activities at JaguarJaguar SHIELD program helps and support children across India and Nepal. Jaguar’s SHIELD program reached out to 4,000 Blind Students across 15 Blind Schools in more than 5 states of India providing braille books and teaching aids to all the students. Jaguar is supporting 90 days meal supplies to more than 4,690 orphaned anddisabled children across 56 districts in three countries. Program has reached out to nearly 9,000 blind, orphaned and disabled children in2025. Business Accolade Jaguarwasawarded Business Eminence Award (Gold Category)  from Dun&Brad street in 2020, 2024 and 2026.

AME Research is a leading global research firm specialising in metals, steel, bulk commodities and gas. Since 1971, we have been the bridge between the complexity of on-site engineering and commercial reality.

AME delivers independent pricing, granular asset-level intelligence and tactical market analysis, underpinned by proprietary engineering cost models, operational insight and advanced analytics.

Our consulting expertise spans industry evaluations, market reviews, technical engineering studies, asset valuations, appraisals and ESG disclosure.

Our comprehensive data and valuation assessments help clients identify investment opportunities, benchmark companies and assets, analyse portfolio performance and anticipate change across commodity markets.

We measure, analyse and model the structural shifts that will define the next 30 years as the world advances towards net-zero emissions, helping clients navigate an increasingly complex landscape with confidence.

For more than 55 years, AME has supported the world’s leading producers, governments, financial institutions, traders, utilities and suppliers.

StoneX was founded in 1924 specializing in hedging futures and commodity contracts.

More than a century later, we have grown into a leading publicly traded, Fortune 50 financial institution (NASDAQ: SNEX) serving 54,000+ institutional, commercial, payments and 260,000+ self-directed clients around the world.

The StoneX metals team specializes in exchange-traded aluminum, copper, zinc, lead, nickel, and tin products. We also trade a suite of ferrous products.

Our  metals experience and focus on client service rank us as one of the best metals firms in the world.

LogiPoint is Saudi Arabia's leading industrial and logistics real estate developer, specializing in bonded and non-bonded logistics parks and trade-enabled zones. Our strategically located facilities support global commodities, metals, and logistics operators with efficient storage, handling, and distribution infrastructure designed to facilitate regional and international trade.

SMM is a global price reporting agency delivering independent price discovery across metals, new energy and AI compute. Every day we publish spot price assessments for more than a thousand products — copper, aluminium, lead, zinc, nickel, tin, steel and iron ore, precious and minor metals, rare earths, battery materials, solar and recycled materials — alongside benchmarks for compute-power leasing and AI token pricing.

Assured against the IOSCO Principles and built on more than 20 years of market data, SMM prices has established an ecosystem from miners, smelters, producers, consumers and traders, and are used for physical settlement, procurement and sales pricing, mark-to-market and risk management.

Alongside pricing, SMM is dedicated in delivering transparent spot prices, analysis, news, research, consulting and conferences, and extend the research scope and price discovery to new energy, carbon, AI and compute power.

SMM serves more than 4 million registered users, including over 800,000 enterprises, with analysts on the ground across Asia, Europe and Africa — we serve customers throughout the global metals ecosystem from a global perspective.

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Established for 35+ years, Sinara is a London-based software house building highly integrated, supported, and managed software solutions for exchanges and trading firms. Our deep industry and technical expertise helps our clients in the metals and commodities markets streamline business operations and offer new digital services. Our SinaraTLC suite of pre-built components cuts delivery times for trading processes from order and risk management through to matching and settlement. Sinara also have an extensive working knowledge of many of the IT systems and business processes within the LME through our long-standing relationship.

Sohar Aluminium was formed in September 2004 to undertake a landmark Greenfield aluminium smelter in the Sultanate of Oman. Operating at 400 kA it has an annual production capacity of more than 400,000 tonnes of high-quality aluminium, supported by a 1,000 MW Power Plant and Port facilities.

Jointly owned by OQ SAOC, TAQA and Rio Tinto, Sohar Aluminium has won global acclaim for its superior, environmentally friendly technology. It has also been recognised multiple times with the highest acclaim in the country for its ESG practices.

Sohar Aluminium’s diverse workforce is almost 80% Omanised and it has an internationally recognised training centre. 60% of the annual production is committed to its local downstream industries.

Sohar Aluminium intends to become a benchmark smelter while contributing to the sustainable development of Oman.

At S&P Global Energy, our comprehensive view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make superior decisions and create long-term, sustainable value.

We bring clarity to the kinetic through our four core capabilities: Platts for news and benchmarks; CERA for research and advisory; Horizons for energy expansion and sustainability solutions; and Events for industry collaboration. Together, these resources empower those who power the world.

S&P Global Energy is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics, and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity, and automotive markets. Through our diverse offerings, we assist many of the world’s leading organizations in navigating the economic landscape, empowering them to plan for tomorrow, today.

Loqsea Technology is a cloud-based commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) platform and an LME Approved ISV. We were founded in London in 2021, built by traders with market experience.Our platform handles the LME's unique structures LME prompt dates, forward curves, and averaging contracts.Futures, options, and OTC positions come together in one live view, with a built-in LME trading card. On-demand risk tools and AI-enabled analysis complete the platform. We connect to major global exchanges, supporting cross-commodity trading firms and brokers around the world.

Founded in 2006, Women in Mining UK (WIM UK) advocates and speaks for women in the mining sector, informing industry participants and decision-makers of the challenges and opportunities women are finding in pursuing careers in mining companies and other mining-related businesses. Through our partnerships with leading mining companies and other industry participants, WIM UK provides thought leadership, analysis and research on the business case for diversity, inclusion and the economic advancement of women in the sector. WIM UK offers a strong network which is used to progress professional goals and career aspirations. Membership is complimentary to both women and men. Through our work with universities and other organisations, WIM UK promotes the role of women in the mining industry and externally raises awareness of mining as a career choice for women. WIM UK celebrates and shares female success stories with the “100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining” publications and through our social media channels.

Founded in 1970, Argus is the leading independent provider of market intelligence to the global energy and commodity markets. We offer essential price assessments, news, analytics, consulting services, data science tools and industry conferences to illuminate complex and opaque commodity markets.

Headquartered in London with over 1,400 staff, Argus is an independent media organisation with 30 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading hubs.

Companies, trading firms and governments in 160 countries around the world trust Argus data to make decisions, analyse situations, manage risk, facilitate trading and for long-term planning. Argus prices are used as trusted benchmarks around the world for pricing transportation, commodities and energy

Established in 1998, CIMM Group, is a global reliable System Integration Service provider & EPC Project Contractor in steel, nonferrous metals, mining and chemical industry. It is an international group company that integrates and develops multiple industries with the concept of promoting global sustainable development. There are three major business sectors in CIMM Group: International EPC+F projects general contracting, Mining division, exportation of Equipments and Materials.

Fastmarkets delivers market-reflective prices, forecasts, and analysis that give you a clear strategic edge in complex, volatile markets. 

More than 650 experts across Europe, Asia, North America, and South America produce 6,500+ price assessments, drawing on a 130-year history of helping the industry trade with confidence. 

Our metals coverage spans primary and secondary markets, from base metals, industrial minerals, ores, and alloys to steel, scrap, critical and battery raw materials. In lithium, our digital spot trade platform connects buyers and sellers directly, bringing transparency and efficiency to price discovery. 

The Fastmarkets dashboard adds LME, CME, and other exchange pricing alongside our own assessments, so market intelligence, price history, and exchange context all live in one place. 

Whether you're a buyer, seller, or trader, Fastmarkets empowers you to make confident, informed decisions in an ever-changing marketplace. 

Women4Metals, founded by Aurubis' colleagues in 2019, is an industry branding and female empowerment initiative in the metals industry - and it's open to all genders! Our vision is to establish the metals industry as an attractive employer for women, with the same fair working conditions for everyone. W4M is open for interested companies, organizations, and private persons to join and support us in reaching our goals and making our joint vision become reality. More information at: www.women4metals.com

Alabama is a major U.S. manufacturing hub for metals and advanced materials, with capabilities spanning steel, aluminum, specialty alloys, fabricated metals, carbon fiber and advanced composites. The sector includes more than 1,100 primary metal companies and 46,700 workers, while metal manufactured-goods exports exceeded $2.6 billion in 2024.

Anchored by leading companies including Novelis, Nucor, ArcelorMittal, Carpenter Technology, Toray and Hexcel, Alabama connects primary materials production with advanced downstream manufacturing serving automotive, aerospace, defense, energy and other global markets. More than $5 billion in new sector capital investment has been announced since the beginning of 2022, underscoring continued momentum across Alabama’s metals and advanced materials ecosystem.

The Alabama Department of Commerce helps companies identify opportunities, navigate investment and expansion, and connect with the resources needed to grow in the state.

FCA-regulated broker based in London, part of a group listed on the NSE exchange in India. With over a decade of experience, we offer access to exchanges and OTC markets in the US, UK, China, Singapore, HK, UAE, etc. Our mission is to provide reliable, transparent and innovative broking services.

CRU, where business intelligence meets a customer-centric approach. Offering unrivalled expert knowledge, CRU provides comprehensive coverage of commodity sectors and industry value chains. From the production of metals, mining and fertilizers, to their integral role and use in the transition to electrification, we provide straightforward market analysis, independent price assessments, transparent methodologies, consultancy and events.

PT TIMAH (Persero) Tbk is a member of MIND ID (Mining Industry Indonesia), Indonesia’s State-Owned Mining Industry Holding, and an integrated tin producer with operations spanning exploration, onshore and offshore mining, processing, smelting, and marketing. Headquartered in Pangkalpinang, Bangka Belitung Islands, Indonesia, PT TIMAH produces and markets tin ingots with a minimum purity of 99.9% Sn for domestic and international markets, while supporting responsible mining and a sustainable global tin supply chain.

HARBOR Aluminum, based in Austin, Texas, and with offices in Latin America and Europe, is an independent and specialized aluminum research firm that compiles and develops aluminum industry intelligence and market insight, and provides data, consulting, and expert advice to over 450 aluminum industry clients across the globe.

We advise a majority of the world's most important market players in the bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminum smelting, metal trading, aluminum processing (extruders, rolling mills, secondary producers, wire rod producers), aluminum recycling, and aluminum end-user segments such as packaging, construction, transportation, electrical and industrial applications.

HARBOR hosts every year, in Chicago, the HARBOR Aluminum Summit, which is the world’s largest aluminum industry conference.