State-owned copper mining investment holding company wants to branch out into agriculture, energy and manufacturing.

Iron ore continues to drift lower as hopes of economic stimulus from Beijing fade.

The things that have moved in this market of course have been precious metal production and near term production stories, but people are coming to understand that high quality discoveries are rare.

Large scale gold futures speculators wrong-footed by jobs report as gold continues to recover.

"When this market turns it will be a lot of fun again."

With world debt at least twice 2008 levels we are witnessing the dawn of a new system, and have been close to a collapse twice this year already.

Adrian Day provides an overview of recent developments at three resource companies on his list. The recent pullback in precious metals stocks has provided opportunities to add to positions, and there is one buy.

Hedge funds and other large speculators held a net-short position, or bets on price declines, of 4,991 U.S. copper futures and options contracts in the week ended Aug. 23, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released three days later. They switched from a net-long position, or wagers on a rally, of 2,237 a week earlier.

Coal India is diversifying its core business through a plan to install 600 megawatts of solar power in four states.