May 18, 2012 China’s rare earth quotas are a joke. 74% of oxides never left port this year Chinese authorities added 10,680 tonnes to the country's export allowance this week but it is something of a meaningless exercise because during the first quarter China only exported 26.3% of…
May 18, 2012 Graff Diamonds IPO should catapult the diamond king up the billionaires list Laurence Graff, the undisputed king of uber-expensive diamonds, will earn a tidy $290 million windfall when he restructures his Mayfair-based company and will vastly boost his paper wealth when Graff…
May 18, 2012 China is developing a grid better for coal than renewables: report China won’t meet its carbon and energy intensity targets unless dramatic changes to its electricity grid are applied, says a study by U.S.-based Energy Transition Research Institute.
May 18, 2012 Silvercorp sets records in China as it emerges from short and distort saga Silvercorp Metals along with the rest of the silver sector jumped on Thursday as the price of the precious metal recovered from […]
May 16, 2012 Chilling real estate numbers from China Business professor Patrick Chovanec, a firm believer that the Middle Kingdom is suffering from a real estate bubble, catalogues some of the latest economic numbers coming out of China and…
May 15, 2012 Copper price: Codelco says strong stomachs will be needed this year Can it really be worse than last year, when the copper price dropped 26% in a single month?
May 15, 2012 Renewed Molycorp sell-off In lunchtime trade Molycorp was changing hands for $24.37, down $1.06 or 4%, in reaction to a downgrade and as investors continue […]
May 15, 2012 Chinese ‘Pompeii’ threatened by coal mine A forest of fossils that is being compared to a "vegetational Pompeii" is under threat from coal mining, says a story in China Daily.
May 15, 2012 BHP Billiton puts its money on the iron ore market and China BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE:BHP) is betting on the iron ore market as one of the forces to drive the mining industry in the next decade, especially as developing nations such…
May 15, 2012 Sinopec to tap into shale gas market and rescue China from growing gas shortfall Sinopec Group, China’s second biggest oil and gas producer, announced it has launched its first shale gas project, expecting to produce 300 to 500 million cubic metres a year by…
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