MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

The company plans to invest a $308 million (R$1 billion) this year to allow the iron ore mine reach a 26.5 million tonnes a year capacity.

The global mining industry rebounded from multi-year lows in 2016 – MINING.com's most popular posts of the year tell the story.

A Chinese court has sent a strong message to corporate executives who have been seeing playing fast and loose within the rules of boon-times capitalism in China.

But forward curve currently pricing 2017 at around $70 per tonne – around 25% higher than 2016’s year to date average.

Turnaround in GDP expansion in world's top commodity consumer over the past few months "almost as sharp as in 2009" says new study.

TABLE: China's copper demand grew 11-fold in 15 years – the rest of the world shrunk. Sans China, the nickel market would've barely broken a million tonnes.

“ Canada is looked to as a leader in mineral exploration and development,”

Vale agrees to pit use for tailings.

Mining company will be added to the country’s Environmental Offenders Registry.