Gold riches fuel Sudan militia’s war to rule nation, UN says

The company booked a $1.175 billion impairment charge against its two Australian alumina refineries in its second-quarter results.

Russia gets around a third of its budget revenues from the oil and gas industry.

Move marks the first time a US government agency has included copper on one of its official “critical” lists, following the examples of the European Union, Japan, India, Canada, and China. 

The partners spent years mired in a tussle over development of the Oyu Tolgoi mine which is the country's biggest foreign investment.

Chinese companies likely to apply to the LME include Tsingshan Group, China's largest nickel producer.

Despite the personnel moves, there aren’t yet signs of permanent retrenchment among hedge funds in metals.

Apart from Asia and Oceania, all other regions outside China recorded increasing levels of activity.

China sources over half of its import needs in tin concentrate from Myanmar.

The foreign ministry would agree on a UK-Zambia Green Growth Compact, aimed at generating £2.5 billion pounds of British private sector investment.