Through our global network of offices, which includes our headquarters, as well as corporate, marketing and industrial offices, our marketing teams physically source commodities from our industrial assets and from our global supplier base. 

Our industrial assets process the commodities from their own mines and sometimes from some of our other industrial assets and/or from third party suppliers. Most finished products are sold by our marketing business to our customers around the world. 

We also recycle a wide variety of complex end-of-life electronics, batteries, and other products, materials and industrial waste that contain metals to extract copper, nickel, cobalt, lead, zinc and precious metals.

Most of the goods and services procured by our marketing activities relate to the contracting of third party operated transportation and infrastructure such as warehousing. 

For our industrial assets, their goods and services procurement activities are mainly for fuel, electrical energy, maintenance and purchasing of mining equipment, mining services, contract labour and transportation.