Vietnam to impose anti-dumping tax on Chinese steel products

Shares in producers fall after China's powerful central planning agency says country's "high steel demand period has passed" and inventories will stay high.

Spending committed by mining and energy companies to start or expand projects fell 14.6% to US$212bn at the end of April from $248bn a year earlier. That is a $36 billion drop.

Alderon Iron Ore gets green light to start construction of $1 billion iron ore mine with Chinese backing near Labrador City.

Angry rioters attacked the nickel facility, which has been closed since early May after an estimated 100,000 litres of acid-tainted effluent polluted a nearby creek.

Cost of building Infrastructure to support 100mt of ore related to Rio Tinto's giant Simandou iron ore mine in Guinea alone estimated at over $13 billion.

Finding may provide a new and more available ingredient for manufacturing motors for hybrid and electric cars, as well as generators.

The bank says it won't finance a project whose effects are still being debated.

Liu Han, 48, was found guilty of 13 charges, including murder, running casinos and illegally selling firearms.

Iron ore prices came back from the dead Wednesday on worries over a shutdown of Australia's largest export port.