Centerra Gold hit with lawsuit over rights violations at Kyrgyzstan mine

Shares in the company lost a fifth of their value on Friday as investors were sceptical of its foreign subsidiary Cairn India Holdings’ $200 million investment in the diversified miner.

Wood Mackenzie forecasts that global lead production will increase in 2019 by about 250 kt.

A key asset is the Oyu Tolgoi copper project in Mongolia, which will partially diversify the miner's earnings away from iron ore.

Chile's development agency Corfo doesn't know whether the county we’ll ever make vehicles, but it would like to at least see battery parts produced locally.

We need to closely watch Vale's overall output and how it will impact on iron ore markets going forward.

Global benchmark gold prices registered a fourth straight monthly gain in January.

"Current price moves are a knee jerk reaction to the Vale news," said BMO Capital Markets analyst Kash Kamal.

An investigation is ongoing into suspected abuse of power - that former finance minister Bayartsogt held shares in a foreign company before the Oyu Tolgoi investment agreement.

Federal Court said BHP must pay tax in Australia on profits made by its Singapore-based marketing arm on the sale of commodities owned by the UK arm.