Aluminum Top Stories

Commodities turn higher as China loosens its virus restrictions

Industrial commodities in China mostly rose as the number of covid-19 cases fell and the government began to loosen the restrictions.

Bloomberg News | May 30, 2022 | 6:48 am

Shrinking stocks likely mean more LME metal price volatility

Overall stocks in LME warehouses have fallen below 900,000 tonnes…

Reuters | May 30, 2022 | 6:27 am

Demand for green metals from recycling expected to grow – report

A report by White & Case states that global demand…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | May 29, 2022 | 7:35 am

Column: Market turbulence won’t slow aluminum’s green drive

The Chinese aluminum juggernaut has run out of momentum and…

Reuters | May 26, 2022 | 8:16 am

Rusal calls strike at Guinea bauxite mine ‘illegal’

The workers at COBAD are demanding better working conditions and…

Reuters | May 26, 2022 | 8:04 am

China’s Yunnan launches 800,000 T metals stockpiling drive

The funds will be used to cover interests on bank loans taken out for the one-year stockpiling drive, which will include copper, aluminium, lead, zinc, tin, among others.

Reuters | April 26, 2020 | 9:02 am

Reeling aluminum market braces for Alcoa’s outlook

Company forecast in January that global supply would exceed demand by as much as 1 million metric tonnes this year.

Bloomberg News | April 22, 2020 | 8:45 am

Home: A brief history of China’s metals stockpiling programmes

When the going gets tough in industrial metal markets, the Chinese get stockpiling.

Reuters | April 13, 2020 | 9:35 am

French industry can return to work safely, metals lobby says ahead of Macron speech

The industry is in "an extremely worrying situation" after 24 days of lockdown, Philippe Darmayan, president of the union of metals industry and businesses, said.

Reuters | April 12, 2020 | 1:03 pm

In uncertain times, global metals exchange volumes surge

LME's average daily activity jumped by 15% in March to 794,139 contracts, the highest monthly total since April 2018.

Reuters | April 8, 2020 | 9:53 am

The state of Chinese commodities shows recovery taking hold

From oil to copper to coal, China’s gigantic commodities industry is signaling that the first economy to be flattened by the coronavirus is getting closer to a return to normality.

Bloomberg News | April 7, 2020 | 9:35 am

Covid-19 cuts $280bn swathe through top 50 mining companies

MINING.COM's ranking of the world's 50 largest mining companies based on market value shows a beleaguered industry at the end of the first quarter 2020.

MINING.com Editor | April 6, 2020 | 2:59 pm