December 29, 2011 Metals – Brazil – Vale’s Chinamax vessel starts unloading its first iron ore in China Brazillian firm Vale's (NYSE: VALE) Chinamax vessel started unloading its first iron ore in China on Wednesday after months of uncertainty on accessing its largest market's ports, news service Exame…
December 28, 2011 Diamond prices to rise over four years Diamond prices are poised to rise for the next four years, outpacing gold, as increased spending on luxury goods in China, India and the Middle East outpaces supplies of the…
December 28, 2011 W. Australia looks to China for iron ore project Western Australia invited China to invest in a A$5.94 billion (US$6 billion) port and rail project that aims to open up a new iron ore province in the state's Mid…
December 28, 2011 Globalisation of China’s yuan widens – gold to reclaim role The latest moves towards trade in Chinese yuan sounds the early death knell of the dollar as the world's global reserve currency with gold likely to return to the monetary…
December 28, 2011 Copper concentrator (40,000 t/d) order in Mongolia awarded to FLSmidth FLSmidth has been awarded a contract worth approximately $105 million from the Mongolian company, Mongolyn Alt (MAK) Group, to supply a greenfield copper concentrator for a mine some 500 km…
December 27, 2011 China cracks down on gold exchanges Governments hate competition. Due to record breaking gold prices this year, more unauthorized gold exchanges have been created to capitalize on gold fever.
December 27, 2011 Shenhua planning Asia’s largest thermal power project in S. China’s Guangxi NANNING, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- China Shenhua Group Co. Ltd., the country's largest coal producer, has signed an agreement to build Asia's largest thermal power project in southern Guangxi Zhuang…
December 27, 2011 Christmas light recyclers learn their tricks from miners The Atlantic profiles Christmas light recyclers, a job that moved to China when the environmental restrictions in the U.S. became too onerous.
December 27, 2011 Shanghai Construction to Buy African Gold Mine (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- Shanghai Construction Group Co., Ltd. (shse:600170) announced on December 27 that its board allowed China Shanghai (Group) Corporation for Foreign Economic & Technological…
December 27, 2011 China should buy gold, the only safe haven – Central Bank research head The head of research for China's Central Banl says that the country should buy gold as the only safe place for risk averse investors when other assets are losing value
Op-Ed: America can’t defend itself with Chinese minerals US is building new critical-mineral processing facilities from Texas to Tennessee, but without new sources of raw material, those plants will sit idle. January 23, 2026 | 12:56 pm
