China to strengthen raw material price supervision, crack down on speculators

In its half-year production update, BHP highlighted challenges faced by its aluminum and nickel businesses.

The giant miner will take about $14 billion of writedowns for failed deals in aluminum and coal led by Tom Albanese.

Company expects aluminum demand to increase 7% this year

From silver-lined prophylactics to iron Buddhas from space, 2012 has seen some strange and fascinating stories on the topics of both base and precious metals

BHP Billiton (ASX, NYSE:BHP) has reportedly chosen mining venture B&A Mineração as the preferred bidder for its Mount Nimba iron ore mine, one of the largest deposits of the mineral in Guinea.

While the world concerns itself with the Syrian civil war and the dangers it poses for the already disturbed Middle East, little notice is taken of the conflicts affecting Africa, probably the single most complex region of the world and arguably its most troubled, warned Tuesday the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

The drop comes amid a serious overcapacity problem in the electrolytic aluminum industry.

At maximum export capacity the mine will bring an additional 60 ships to the marine park.

Australia’s federal government has agreed to back the construction of a proposed gas pipeline to supply Rio Tinto’s (LON, ASX:RIO) struggling Gove aluminum operations in the country’s Northern Territory.