August 30, 2021

Shanghai aluminum price hits 13-year high on supply worries in China

The metal has surged more than 30% this year, second only to tin among the six base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange.

August 30, 2021

Russell: Asia’s coal importers split between rich north and poorer south

Region is increasingly becoming split between those countries willing and able to pay high prices, and those who are cutting now unaffordable imports.

August 30, 2021

Dragons fly as Chinese millennials take a shine to gold

China's heritage gold market to reach $15 billion by 2024.

August 29, 2021

ESG strategy makes Norra Kärr REE project attractive – report

According to Roskill, by revising the flowsheet to reduce the project's footprint and looking to secure an off-site brownfield location for a refining facility, LEM has lowered the environmental risk…

August 27, 2021

How Afghanistan’s $1 trillion mining wealth sold the war

US media regurgitates a 2010 New York Times frontpage story on Afghanistan’s mineral riches based on a secret Pentagon memo and a 1977 Soviet geologic map.

August 27, 2021

Global iron ore production to accelerate until 2025 – report

Fitch forecasts global iron ore mine output growth will average 3.6% over the 2021 to 2025 period.

August 27, 2021

Aluminum price hits highest level since April 2018 on China curbs

Worries about supplies from China escalated after the country's Xinjiang region imposed output limits on five smelters.

August 27, 2021

Jiangxi Copper Q2 profit hits 10-year high on rising prices

The company's first-half net income quadrupled year-on-year to $469.5 million.

August 27, 2021

Bacanora Lithium accepts Ganfeng’s $391 million takeover offer

The deal hands China’s largest lithium producer control over the Bacanora mine in Mexico, slated to begin production in 2023.

August 26, 2021

Iron ore price rises on China steel demand optimism

China’s success in stamping out latest covid-19 outbreak also bolstered the outlook for commodities from copper to oil.