Trump didn’t save coal or steel – to be fair, no one could

Financing consisted of a loan of $50 million from Investissement Quebec along with $125 million for an 18% equity stake in TSMC through Ressources Quebec.

The company behind Minnesota's first copper-nickel mine is putting its shoulder to the wheel of a project that has been over a decade in the making.

"It would of obvious strategic benefit for China to control a major iron ore deposit and add new supply to discipline the market."

While output was down for most commodities it mines and sales, it has improved earnings forecast for its trading unit.

The move comes only a few days after it resumed operations at Collinsville mine in Australia's Queensland state.

If prices for the commodities it mines continue to pick up, the firm must cancel plans to sell some of its best assets.

Sirius Minerals’ York mine is expected to be one of the world’s largest in terms of the amount of resources extracted, generating an initial 10 million tonnes of polyhalite per year.

Kumba is pleased to announce the appointments of Ms Nonkululeko Dlamini (nee Veleti) and Mr Seamus French as non-executive directors to the Board, with effect from 1 November 2016.

This is probably the headline most people who have lost their jobs in the last two years were dying to read.