The massive premium for prompt delivery has enticed a trickle of metal into exchange warehouses, but not enough to tame market wildness.

India, the world’s third-biggest emitter, has come under pressure to make a net-zero pledge ahead of global climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, this year.

Xu Xiao was based at the LME's Singapore office and had also served as vice president, corporate sales for Asia since September 2016 before leaving at the end of February.

The company reported production of 19,477 of uranium ore concentrate in 2020, down 15% compared to 22,808 in 2019.

The Chinese city of Baotou in Inner Mongolia ordered some shutdowns in a bid to meet its energy consumption targets for the first quarter.

In the past year, 102 coal miners have been killed in Balochistan in 72 different incidents.

Tsingshan uses nickel ore to make stainless steel raw material nickel pig iron (NPI) in Indonesia.