Glencore chairman Tony Hayward to step down by 2022

Affected by a domestic coal shortage, Poland's largest exporter Weglokoks had to order a shipment from the US so that it can honour contracts with its overseas buyers.

Figure represents about a third of the country's iron ore mines currently in operations.

China is expected to slash in half the rate of steel production in Tangshan, a city in the north-east that produces 11 per cent of the country’s total output

Jeremy Corbyn, whose Labour Party came second in the 2017 UK general election, has reached out to communities hit hard by the downtown in the coal and steel industries.

He intends to buy as much as 1.5 billion pounds (about$2 billion) worth of additional Anglo American shares.

Investors to vote on the two resolutions submitted ethical investing group ACCR at BHP’s annual general meeting in London in October.

He joined the company's board in September 2011 and was appointed chief financial officer in April 2013.

North Korea may not have proved petroleum reserves, but it's estimated that the secluded belligerent nation sits on reserves of more than 200 minerals—including rare earth minerals—worth an estimated up to US$10 trillion.

Current coal production is being stockpiled on site, and trucked and stored up at the Provincial Energy Ventures port in Sydney, Cape Breton, for export.