China Shops Abroad for Copper
China’s State Reserves Bureau (SRB) has been dipping into the market to....
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China copper confidence contrasts with aluminium woe
Capacity is dividing China’s metals producers, with the country’s top copper refiner....
Mongolian Tavan Tolgoi mine auction: High rewards, high risks
Mongolia’s government will soon hire an investment bank to sell part of a massive....
Metals czars Potanin, Deripaska want to create Russian BHP Billiton
Two Russian metals billionaires have proposed the creation of a mining giant part....
Vedanta runs into more local trouble on Nyamgiri Hills bauxite development
British headquartered, but Indian run, major diversified mining company Vedant....
Ireland’s Tara zinc mineworkers vote on closure prevention proposals
Workers at Tara, Europe’s largest zinc mine, will vote next week on proposals....
167 workers rescued at DRD’s Blyvoor shaft after "act of God"
DRD Gold hopes to resume production at its number five shaft at Blyvoor mine....
Voracious sponges save reef
Tropical oceans are known as the deserts of the sea. And yet this unlikely....
"Alien" Atmosphere Helped Unfreeze Early Earth
Oxygen trapped in 635-million-year-old rocks from the Arctic has revealed that...
Brazilian oil gets British backing in prep for boom
A leading British oil and natural gas company will invest $4 billion in Brazil’s...
Chilean think tank forecasts copper prices will drop even lower
Copper output in Chile, the world’s largest producer, may fall in 2009 as the industry....
Cooling The Planet By Growing The Right Crops
By carefully selecting which varieties of food crops to cultivate, much of Europe and....
Alcoa Participates in Climate Protection Initiative
As a founding member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), Alcoa joined...
De Beers’ Multifaceted Strategy Shift
A diamond may be forever, as De Beers’ famous advertising slogan contends....
Xstrata employees ’working 33pc more for 8pc pay rise’
Unions say workers at Xstrata’s McArthur River Mine in the Northern Territory...