How an aluminum product is helping scientists better understand the Big Bang

LNG Canada is a joint venture of Shell, Petronas, PetroChina, Mitsubishi and Kogas.

Meanwhile, Nexa Resources, a unit of Votorantim, has just approved a $392 million capital expenditure in a zinc mining project in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.

Aluminium is a metal key for the transport and packaging industries but at current prices about 40% of the world's aluminium production is losing money.

Sumitomo Metal cut its full-year forecast, blaming lower-than-expected metal prices amid the U.S.-Sino trade spat, and reduced nickel output.

Queensland state is set to unveil proposed resource regulations that will require miners to pay into an "insurance fund" for the remediation of old mines.

China this year has been exporting unusually high volumes of alumina, a substance used to make aluminium.

Companies in metals and mining have been hit especially hard amid concern that the rising trade frictions from the tariffs have helped crimp economic growth.

Higher demand for aluminum parts in airplanes yields a better-than-expected quarterly profit.

If a community or government wants a bigger share of the pie, they may need to be willing to take on more of the risk.