Class action against Rio Tinto over Oyu Tolgoi escalates; Taseko wins court battle over Florence copper project; Resolute Mining shares drop 25% on Ghana lease termination

The United Arab Emirates is strengthening its defences against financial crime, including new restrictions on the movement of cash and precious metals.

Looming inspections and concerns over Myanmar supplies are adding fresh momentum to a rally in prices of the rare earth minerals.

India has set in motion the biggest ever auction of coal mines in the country.

TES’s multi-million-dollar facility has the capacity to recycle up to 14 tonnes or the equivalent of 280,000 lithium-ion smartphone batteries a day.

Police opened fire to beat back the protesters in the southern seaside town of Thoothukudi where 13 people were killed, causing national outrage and the subsequent closure of the Sterlite Copper plant.

The smelter will have an input capacity of 2.4 million tonnes of copper concentrate and an output capacity of 600,000 tonnes.