China lithium top player boosts investment in emerging Australian miner
Chinese companies continue to aggressively try securing steady supply of lithium, a key ingredient in the making of batteries that power electric cars.
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Biggest miner says China’s shift to quality iron-ore will hold
BHP forecasts reforms in China’s steel sector will continue to hand an advantage to suppliers of higher-quality iron ore and coking coal as consumption of the alloy keeps growing well into the next decade.
Indonesia sees coal output flat in 2019 amid equipment shortage
Amid concerns Indonesia could exhaust existing minable coal reserves of 13 billion tonnes 25 years, the government is considering measures to push miners to carry out exploration work before they can obtain permits to increase output.
China’s iron ore rises on renewed steel output; 2nd day of foreign trade
Utilisation rate at mills climb back to November level.
Australia’s Newcrest: Cadia mine to return to full production by mid-2018
The miner said it had begun depositing tailings into the Cadia Hill open pit over the weekend.
Meteoric expansion in Cobalt
Meteoric's new project contains historical cobalt-silver shafts and pits which have never been explored using modern exploration techniques.
Qatar steps in to buy Rosneft stake after China deal collapses
Qatar Investment Authority stepped in after the sellers -- a consortium of QIA itself and mining giant Glencore Plc -- told CEFC it wouldn’t proceed with the original deal announced in October.
Coal mine deaths climb to 23 in southwest Pakistan – officials
At least 16 miners died on Saturday and more than a dozen were trapped after an explosion in a mine in the Marwar coalfields.
Two miners dead, three missing after quake at Polish coal mine
A 3.4 magnitude quake hit the Borynia-Zofiowka-Jastrzebie coal mine in southern Poland on Saturday morning.
