INFOGRAPHIC: Minerals make manufacturing

The move is aimed at offsetting China's near-total market control of a metal used widely across the defense and energy sectors.

Gold erased gains as traders geared up for US economic data that may help them assess the outlook for interest rates in the year ahead. 

The gold miners’ stocks are limping into 2025 seriously oversold, deeply undervalued, and really out of favor.

Copper futures edged higher in London and New York as tentative signs of buying interest emerged following a string of losses.