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Lead’s viral resistance carries a lesson for other metals

Lead, trading in London at $1,725 per tonne, is down by just 10.1% so far this year.

Reuters | March 31, 2020 | 8:52 am

Last year's net profit was Jiangxi Copper's best since 2014.

Reuters | March 31, 2020 | 8:43 am

Vale calculates roughly 18 million tonnes of output could be…

Reuters | March 31, 2020 | 8:22 am

Fitch Solutions expects elevated prices will encourage miners to restart…

MINING.com Editor | March 30, 2020 | 11:28 am

The BI Global Copper Competitive Peers index has slumped 37%…

Bloomberg News | March 30, 2020 | 8:19 am

The Bloomberg Industrial Metals Subindex Total Return has tumbled more than 10% since mid-January as the virus outbreak spread globally.

Bloomberg News | March 4, 2020 | 4:28 pm

The Dalian Commodity Exchange's May iron ore contract ended up 0.9% at $95.13 a tonne.

Reuters | March 4, 2020 | 1:25 pm

Coronavirus hits De Beers sales

Company has deferred allocations due to the virus impact on customers focused on the Chinese market.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 4, 2020 | 3:55 am

The gold-silver ratio is currently at 95 and rising as both silver and gold keep climbing on virus fears.

Rick Mills | March 3, 2020 | 2:02 pm

Company operates both mines and smelters and it has 160,000 tonnes of annual copper smelting capacity.

Reuters | March 3, 2020 | 9:26 am

The world’s No. 2 lithium miner saw profits drop 38% in Q4 2019 and said sales to China in the first months of 2020 could be hit by the virus.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 3, 2020 | 3:56 am

Investors look beyond fall in manufacturing gauge to lowest on record to hopes of massive infrastructure stimulus from Beijing.

Frik Els | March 2, 2020 | 1:51 pm

Sparse attendance in Toronto convention shows impact of the virus outbreak.

Fitch Ratings predicts that the disruptions caused by COVID-19 will ease over the medium term.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | March 1, 2020 | 7:15 am