Trump Raises Stakes Over Copper Project With CEOs at White House

President Donald Trump met with the chief executive officers of the world’s two biggest mining companies to discuss a copper project that could supply the US with a quarter of its demand for decades to come, adding greater weight to his push to boost local output of the vital metal.

Rio Tinto Group’s Jakob Stausholm; his incoming replacement, Simon Trott; and counterpart at BHP Group, Mike Henry, met the US leader to discuss the Resolution project in Arizona, according to a LinkedInpost by Stausholm. In a separate post, Trump criticized a court judgment that set back ...