More than half the 2017 combined market cap gains for the world's largest listed miners accrued to just five firms as gold producers drop out of top 10.
While long-term diamond demand may be slowing, this year rough-diamond prices experienced positive turn-around and prices of polished diamonds stabilized.
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Coal may have fallen out of favor in North America and Europe, but India and other Asian nations ensure the dirtiest fossil fuel continues as energy supply.
Gold demand in most Asian centres firmed this week, spurred on by a dip in prices although buyers in the world's second-biggest consumer India held off buying in the hope of further falls.
The Indian Captive Power Producers Association denounced that most of its member companies are getting half of the coal they need from state-owned Coal India.