Death of coal financing is exaggerated as China steps up

The move comes only three months after U.S. President Barack Obama signed a space exploitation law.

FTSE 100 reweighting to take place in March.

However, they acknowledge that there are no signposts yet in the market that suggest mineral prices will rebound soon.

The gold miner is expanding its portfolio to platinum, coal and uranium, as it also mulls an incursion in the base metals sector.

The company is said to be wanting to offload its Barro Alto nickel mine and the vast Minas-Rio iron ore complex.

The main culprit? Cheap natural gas.

Rescuers drilled two big holes into the tunnel to save the trapped miners, who were brought to the ground in a capsule.

Quoting levels "very low" and machines already sold are not being put into service by mining companies.

The besieged miner plans to lower costs at its iron ore mines after boosting total annual output for the steelmaking ingredient.