By: Creamer media

This gross performance reflects continued regular progress in the company’s strategy to complement its exploration portfolio with near-term, cash-generative trading activities, focused exclusively on responsibly sourced and fully traceable mineral supply chains, Aterian avers.

However, trading volumes during the period were below management’s target levels as the emphasis remained on maintaining high traceability compliance and general margin discipline. This is anticipated to recover in the first quarter of this year.

“Importantly, the trading business has demonstrated its potential to generate meaningful gross margins. We believe the performance achieved in the fourth quarter of 2025 demonstrates the viability of the company’s trading model and provides a foundation for the measured scaling of volumes during 2026, subject to working capital availability and market conditions,” executive chairperson Charles Bray comments.

“Critically, Aterian has continued to make deliberate progress in establishing a fully traceability-compliant mineral trading business, aligned with Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and Responsible Minerals Initiative guidance and designed to meet the increasingly stringent requirements of international buyers, financiers and regulators.

“This capability is strategically important: it differentiates the company and positions Aterian as a credible supplier of responsibly sourced materials into international markets,” he adds.