Ahmad Meydari, Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, on the sidelines of the Safety and Technical Protection Exhibition, referring to the ministry's plans to curb workplace accidents, described the prevailing approach as a transition from traditional and paper-based oversight to smart and data-driven monitoring, and announced the start of the legal requirement for online data registration in coal mines.

Iran Alloy Steel Company, during the Intergovernmental Council of the Eurasian Economic Union summit in Minsk, took an important step toward diversifying export markets and facilitating financial exchanges in the Eurasian region by signing two key memoranda of understanding with the Belarusian Commodity Exchange and "TC Bank."

The Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade, outlining the latest status of the restoration and reconstruction of damaged industrial infrastructure, announced the return of the majority of petrochemical and steel units to the production cycle and guaranteed stable supply of steel sheets for downstream industries.

Glencore has forecast that its commodity trading division's profit will exceed $5 billion in 2026; a performance that, according to the company, has been driven above all by upheavals in oil, refined products, gas, and shipping markets, and could mark one of the best results in Glencore's history.

Seyed Mostafa Feyz, CEO of the National Iranian Copper Industries Company, visited the concentration plant of the Sarcheshmeh Copper Complex on Saturday, October 3, 2026.

Gas Malaysia aims to make a final investment decision on plans for its first regasification terminal by the second half of next year, with the facility due to come online by the end of 2030, its CEO said.

Generation Mining has started with construction of the Marathon copper/palladium project, in Ontario.

Venture Global and ConocoPhillips said on Thursday they had signed a 20-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement under which ConocoPhillips will buy one-million tonnes a year of LNG starting in 2030.

Nordic Compass, a competitiveness-focused business alliance, is considering branching out into critical raw materials to build up the region’s capacity to process minerals needed by European industry.

Osmond Resources has published a scoping study advancing the case for the EU's first rare earths, zircon and titanium mine.