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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Sustainable Materials Hub
McKinsey’s Sustainable Materials Hub empowers organizations to solve the sustainable materials challenge and achieve carbon reduction commitments through the production and sourcing of low-carbon materials.
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 infrastructure and industrial companies across energy, materials and resources, on tech-enabled transformation and growth...
Stephan Görner
Senior PartnerWestern Canada
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 PartnerWestern Canada
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 Partner and Managing Partner, NordicsHelsinki
Jukka is the Managing Partner of McKinsey’s Nordics office. He brings extensive experience in the global energy and materials...
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,...
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
How Apple is helping unearth a path toward increasing the global use of circular materials
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As the need for recycled materials continues to grow, Apple worked with McKinsey to understand how expanding circular value chains could help meet the demand.
Case Study
From instinct to real-time insight: Transforming steel sales with AI
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ArcelorMittal Brazil partnered with McKinsey to redesign its sales journey. A gen AI–powered tool removed the friction of everyday selling, freeing salespeople to focus on what mattered most: creating value for customers.
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Emirates Global Aluminium: Leading the industry with AI-driven transformation
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How a top aluminium producer tapped the power of AI to transform the organization and scale impact across operations
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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.
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