INFOGRAPHIC: The periodic table of commodity returns

Today’s visualization compares individual commodity returns between 2010 and 2019.

Visual Capitalist | January 13, 2020 | 1:43 pm

Ferrexpo full-year production drops marginally as demand wanes

Steel demand in China is expected to fall 0.6% in 2020.

Reuters | January 13, 2020 | 1:20 pm

South Africa’s mining industry calls for action to end power crisis

Analysts say the government needs to procure more generating capacity fast.

Reuters | January 13, 2020 | 11:18 am

US to impose sanctions on Iran’s metal exports and leaders

The administration first prepared the sanctions in December, before tensions escalated between the US and Iran.

Bloomberg News | January 10, 2020 | 9:32 am

Brazil plans to allow mining in Amazonian indigenous reserves

The Brazilian constitution permits the extraction of raw materials from the reserves but a lack of regulation has resulted in widespread wildcat mining across the region.

Bloomberg News | January 10, 2020 | 9:20 am

As metal trade shrinks, exchanges fight back with new products

It was a year to forget for many of the base metals with copper, aluminium, zinc and lead closing out 2019 little changed from year-start levels.

Reuters | January 10, 2020 | 9:10 am

India to propose easing foreign investment rules further

But competition from a state-run monopoly, which gets its coal mines free, may stymie Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to attract more investments into the sector.

Bloomberg News | January 10, 2020 | 4:12 am