December 26, 2018 Trump’s EPA to maintain Obama-era coal plant curbs, with a twist Electric utilities have already spent billions of dollars to meet the requirements.
December 26, 2018 Dalian coke futures end at 3-week low on demand concerns Chinese iron ore and rebar contracts, however, edged up on hopes that steel demand will pick up.
December 26, 2018 U.S. trade delegation to travel to China week of Jan. 7 for talks The meeting would be the first in-person talks since Trump met with Xi Jinping in Buenos Aires on Dec. 1.
December 26, 2018 China’s Zhejiang Huayou to invest $147m in copper project in DRC The project will be located in the Lukuni region in the south.
December 26, 2018 China carbon industry to face severe overcapacity — association Carbon products are widely used in sectors such as metallurgy, chemicals, aviation and renewable energy.
December 24, 2018 China’s GEM signs five-year battery material supply deal with ECOPRO This deal is Gem Co Ltd's latest effort to win a bigger share of the booming power cell market.
December 24, 2018 China’s Minmetals to buy 2.04m tonnes iron ore from Rio Tinto in 2019 Minmetals will purchase Pilbara Blend lump ore that will delivered through 12 cargoes and priced at around $144.94 million.
December 21, 2018 BMO digs deeper in mining during a ‘transition’ year for bank “Our lending commitments to the metals and mining sector at BMO have doubled over the last five years, and a lot of that has really been in the last couple…
December 21, 2018 China aluminium firms to cut 800,000t of capacity in coming months – official Operating pressure on smelters is "reaching the extreme limit" even worse than in the fourth quarter of 2015.
December 20, 2018 The year that politics broke the metals cycle: Andy Home In a world where the Trump Administration is leading a return to economic and resource nationalism, it’s hard to see how global metals can break free of global politics.
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