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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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 industrial Internet of Things and digital transformation in the industrial sectors, particularly for companies in...
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...
Jukka Maksimainen
Senior PartnerHelsinki
Leads the firm’s work in global energy and materials using experience in serving natural-resources companies, advanced-industries...
Maria João Ribeirinho
PartnerLisbon
Supports energy and infrastructure companies in multiple geographies on strategic and operational issues.
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 story
Impact Story
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.
Impact Story
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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McKinsey launches new Sustainable Materials Hub to accelerate the net-zero transition across value chains
Companies utilizing steel, cement, and more have pledged to reach net zero—but face major challenges. Our new hub will meet the urgency and promise of the moment.
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