Vale evacuates 200 people from town near its Mar Azul mine

Batista, once one of the world's ten richest people, has lost billions from his commodities and logistics empire this year.

Despite recent falls,commodity prices are still near their levels of early to mid-2008.

Shares of African Minerals surged 47% on Thursday after one of China's largest iron-ore trading companies injected $990 million into its Tonkolili mine.

CEO Andrew Mackenzie expects to have something to say about the expansion "within a year.”

Somebody's going to get rich cleaning up China's environment.

The Brazilian miner is considering more non-core asset sales by the end of the year... and it is also working on a secret, "surprising" deal.

The figure is up from just 2% only 12 months ago.

China wants to undo a multi-billion dollar agreement.

Ferrexpo spends $80 million on Ferrous Resources shares.