Thomas Biesheuvel

Thomas Biesheuvel

  • Al Cook, chief executive officer of De Beers PlcRetail

    De Beers ditches lab-grown diamonds and shifts focus to natural stones, as it looks beyond mining giant Anglo

    By Thomas Biesheuvel and Bloomberg
  • AUSTRALIA – 26 FEBRUARY 2024: Satellite view of Olympic Dam Mine, located in South Australia, showcases increased activity due to resurgence and demand. The mine also extracts copper, silver, and gold. The Australian government invests in a South Australian wind and grid-scale battery to power and decarbonize the mine. (Photo by Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2024)Finance

    BHP proposes deal to buy Anglo American in $39 billion mining mega-merger

    By Thomas Biesheuvel, Dinesh Nair, and others
  • digital imageFinance

    The diamond industry is coping with a 20% price drop and worries Gen Z isn’t all that interested in its stones

    By Thomas Biesheuvel and Bloomberg
  • Lab-grown diamonds are hurting demand for the natural variety.Finance

    Diamond demand is falling so fast—courtesy lab-grown stones—De Beers is cutting some prices by more than 40%

    By Thomas Biesheuvel and Bloomberg
  • IronworkerFinance

    The ‘manufacturing renaissance act’ spurred by Joe Biden is brewing up a bidding war for an American icon: US Steel

    By Thomas Biesheuvel, Joe Deaux, and others
  • A worker handles newly formed copper cathode sheets in a warehouse at the KGHM Polska Miedz SA copper smelting plant in Glogow, Poland, on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Nickel extended its plunge from a six-year high after a stock-market slump hurt risk appetite, while copper resumed losses as supply concerns eased. Photographer: Bartek Sadowski/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    The mining industry can’t ignore a startup’s solution to a decades-old copper problem: ‘The potential is enormous’

    By Thomas Biesheuvel and Bloomberg
  • Diamond rings are displayed in a cabinet inside a De Beers SA store in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Chinese deluxe spending on travel is the “fastest-growing competitor” standing in the way of diamond sales in the world’s biggest consumer market, Chief Executive Officer Bruce Cleaver said in an interview. Photographer: Calvin Sit/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    It’s not just microchips and lumber. The next great supply shortage is diamonds

    By Bloomberg and Thomas Biesheuvel
  • A worker wearing a protective ventilator mask inspects copper cathode and anode sheets in an electrolytic tank in the electrolysis shop of the JSC Kola Mining & Metallurgical Co (Kola MMC) plant, a unit of MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC, in Monchegorsk, Russia, on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. Copper extended its breakneck rally, moving closer to a record high set a decade ago, as investors pile into metals on bets that rebounding economies will further tighten supplies. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Investors are suddenly obsessed with ‘supercycles’

    By Mark Burton, Thomas Biesheuvel, and others
  • Jean-Sebastien Jacques, chief executive officer of Rio Tinto Ltd., pictured here in February, 2020, will step down amid an investor backlash over the destruction of ancient Aboriginal heritage sites in Australia.International

    The CEO of mining giant Rio Tinto is forced out following the destruction of an ancient archeological site

    By Thomas Biesheuvel, David Stringer, and others
  • Rough diamondsRetail

    For the Diamond Industry, Things Are Rough

    By Thomas Biesheuvel and Bloomberg