China, the highly problematic saviour of the global aluminium market? Andy Home As supply fears grow, the market's attention is turning to China as a potential source of aluminium. Reuters | April 19, 2018 | 11:43 am
Canada’s Copper Mountain grabs Altona Mining in $72-million deal Merger creates a mid-sized copper miner, with an expected annual production of about 73,000 tonnes of the metal. Cecilia Jamasmie | April 19, 2018 | 11:13 am
UK goes a record 55 hours without coal as clean power expands Coal, which fueled the world’s biggest economies for more than a century, is increasingly losing out to renewables. Bloomberg News | April 19, 2018 | 11:03 am
Weir to buy Esco to add mining equipment as company revamps Weir Group Plc plans to acquire U.S. competitor Esco Corp. as the U.K. maker of industrial pumps strengthens its focus on the mining industry. Bloomberg News | April 19, 2018 | 10:47 am
Sanctions fallout upends metals as aluminum, nickel burst higher Aluminum rallied as much as 7.1 percent, a record intraday gain, to $2,718 a ton in London. Bloomberg News | April 19, 2018 | 10:35 am
Labrador Iron Ore says workers reject IOC labor agreement Shares of Labrador Iron Ore, which has a 15 percent stake in the company, fell 5 percent. Reuters | April 19, 2018 | 10:13 am
Australia’s South32 sees brighter manganese outlook, shares soar The Perth-based miner plans to raise its Australian manganese production by 6 percent to 3.3 million wet metric tonnes. Reuters | April 19, 2018 | 9:58 am
Australia’s Pilbara Minerals to ship first spodumene cargo to China in Aug Spodumene is a mineral mined as a source of lithium, a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries, for which China is the world's biggest market. Reuters | April 19, 2018 | 9:32 am
Strike halts gold output at two Randgold mines in Mali — union The strike at the company’s Loulo and Gounkoto mines is related to the payment of bonuses and will continue until the issue is resolved. Reuters | April 19, 2018 | 7:45 am