February 20, 2017 China leading the charge for lithium-ion megafactories As exciting as Tesla's Gigafactory 1 project is, it’s actually just one of multiple large-scale “megafactories” being built – with many of them being in China.
February 20, 2017 North Korea lights fire under coking coal price The totalitarian state is the number three supplier to China of the steelmaking raw material.
February 19, 2017 China won’t buy any more North Korean coal this year The economic noose is being tightened around North Korea's neck after the pariah regime ignored a United Nations resolution by testing a missile last week.
February 19, 2017 Gold gets a shot in the arm from inflation and China The question I have is: Why would an investor deliberately choose to lose money? But that’s precisely what’s happening now with inflation where it is.
February 17, 2017 Uranium price rally comes to screeching halt Down more than 6% Friday as realities of Japanese reactor restarts make an impact.
February 17, 2017 CHARTS: The gigantic paper market to price gold The gold market dwarves turnover on the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 combined, German and UK government bonds and even some of the top currency pairs.
February 17, 2017 De Beers Forevermark passes 2,000 global retail doors Forevermark, the diamond brand from The De Beers Group of Companies, today announced it has passed 2,000 retail doors globally, following the opening of the Zen Diamond Anatolium store in…
February 16, 2017 Interest rates, inflation, and Trumpian troubles point up for gold Gold prices of late have been testing support just under the market, if you will, preparing for a healthy rally into higher territory.
February 16, 2017 Vale’s iron ore output just hit another record The world’s No.1 iron ore miner produced 349 million tonnes of the steelmaking ingredient in 2016, helped partly by the opening of its massive S11D mine.
February 15, 2017 China may tighten up coal output curbs again as prices collapse Restrictions would remain in place for six months, with some mines and areas possibly excluded.
China pledges to control steel output during 2026-2030 period In the first 11 months of 2025, China's crude steel output fell 4% from a year earlier. December 27, 2025 | 08:20 am
