Aluminum

Rio Tinto paid a 65% premium.

The mining giant provided investors with a sour Valentine’s treat as it posted a $3 billion loss, its first ever full-year loss.

A senior Chinese official has flagged Beijing's strong interest in Iranian resources.

In its half-year production update, BHP highlighted challenges faced by its aluminum and nickel businesses.

The giant miner will take about $14 billion of writedowns for failed deals in aluminum and coal led by Tom Albanese.

Company expects aluminum demand to increase 7% this year

From silver-lined prophylactics to iron Buddhas from space, 2012 has seen some strange and fascinating stories on the topics of both base and precious metals

BHP Billiton (ASX, NYSE:BHP) has reportedly chosen mining venture B&A Mineração as the preferred bidder for its Mount Nimba iron ore mine, one of the largest deposits of the mineral in Guinea.

While the world concerns itself with the Syrian civil war and the dangers it poses for the already disturbed Middle East, little notice is taken of the conflicts affecting Africa, probably the single most complex region of the world and arguably its most troubled, warned Tuesday the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).