Metals & Mining
Helping metals and mining companies create lasting impact in changing environments
We help metals and mining companies accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth by leveraging artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to shape their strategy, boost productivity, and drive innovation.
How we help clients
Metals
McKinsey serves most of the world’s largest metals players, across every region. We help them shape strategy, transform operational performance, and build agile organizations.
Mining
We serve two-thirds of the world’s top 25 mining companies, across all regions and functions—helping them navigate a volatile world and deliver outstanding performance.
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Our People
Karel Eloot
Senior PartnerShenzhen
Focuses on counseling metals and mining executives and creating value through digital transformations in the industrial sectors,...
Elizabeth Foote
PartnerLondon
Advises industrial companies across energy, resources, and infrastructure on transformation with a particular focus on the energy...
Stephan Görner
Senior PartnerVancouver
Global Co-Leader of McKinsey’s Transformation Practice; helps organizations around the world achieve full potential through holistic...
Rajat Gupta
Senior PartnerMumbai
Leads the Sustainability Practice in Asia; drives large scale, digital-led transformations in the energy and materials sector
Greg Kudar
Senior PartnerCalgary
Advises resource-based companies to help management teams make better portfolio choices and deliver on both capital and operating...
Patrick Lahaie
Senior PartnerMontréal
Advises leading companies in a range of industries on holistic performance transformations and complex turnarounds
Jukka Maksimainen
Senior PartnerHelsinki
Leads the firm’s work in global energy and materials using experience in serving natural-resources companies, machinery and advanced-industries...
Bernardo Rubinstein
PartnerLima
Bernardo leads the mining practice for Latin America. Helps executives transform their operations to create dramatic improvements...
Richard Sellschop
Senior PartnerConnecticut – Darien
Leads our Global Mining Service Line and heads up our digital and analytics work within the Metals & Mining Practice globally,...
Christos Sermpetis
PartnerDubai
Leads our Middle East Operations Practice, serving companies in extractive and process industries. Brings deep expertise across...
Michel Van Hoey
Senior PartnerLuxembourg
Advises leading metals and mining companies on strategy, marketing and sales, organization, and transformation
Amy Yang
PartnerShenzhen
Brings deep experience in the metals and mining, energy, and adjacent sectors in helping both state-owned Chinese enterprises...
Client Impact Stories
Case Study
Freeport-McMoRan: Unlocking new mining production through AI transformation
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Freeport-McMoRan, one of the world’s leading mining companies, faced a dilemma. To maintain growth in its Americas copper operations it needed to increase production. Freeport believed the answer lay in improving operations with advanced analytics.
Case Study
How a steel plant in India tapped the value of data—and won global acclaim
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By upskilling employees and innovating with analytics, Tata Steel’s plant in Kalinganagar, India, achieved performance gains that earned it recognition as a leading digital facility by the World Economic Forum.
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