Trump has reportedly rejected a plan to levy tariffs of 10 percent on an additional $200 billion of imports from China and ordered aides to prepare a proposal for tariffs at the higher rate of 25 percent.

U.S. Steel Corp. fell the most among peers as a mixed bag of quarterly results left investors wondering if they would see any real benefit from trade policies that have pushed up U.S. prices of the metal.

China vowed on Thursday to retaliate if the United States acted on a threat to raise tariffs on the Asian nation's exports, fueling fears in financial markets that the trade war between the world's two biggest economies would escalate.

The new chief executive of Tahoe Resources Inc said on Thursday that his top priority is ending a long-running dispute in Guatemala that has stopped all of the mining company’s silver production.

South African gold producers say they have offered annual wage increases of up to 7.2 percent to underground employees and up to 4.5 percent for miners and artisans, after unions rejected a previous offer last week.

Gold miner Centamin Plc's quarterly core earnings topped market expectations as lower-than-estimated mine site costs and inventory-driven sales volumes offset a drop in production.

The Nevada-based company posted a second-quarter loss of $15.6 million, or 5 cents per share, compared to a profit of $33.5 million, or 11 cents per share, in the year-ago period.

Kinross Gold Corp said on Wednesday it was "pausing" expansion work at its Tasiast gold mine in Mauritania after a government request for talks to improve the country's economic benefits from the miner's activities.

Barrick Gold Corp will make a bigger push to attract institutional investors in China under a new deeper-ties pact with Shandong Gold, aimed at bolstering its shareholder base, executives told Reuters.

Mali's government has granted Randgold Resources a 50% corporate tax reduction for the next 4 years at its Gounkoto mine.

EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday voiced concerns about German Wieland's bid for copper smelter Aurubis' flat-rolled products business, saying the deal may hurt competition.

The London Metal Exchange (LME) launched on Wednesday a consultation to trial in the first quarter of next year the use of its electronic system to determine closing prices of the three-month nickel contract instead of open outcry.