The bull and bear case for copper price

Sale is part of Rio’s planned exit from Australian coal to focus on iron ore, copper and aluminum.

The Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange (SDIX) has launched a new investment-grade, standardized diamond product to rival gold as a safe-haven asset.

Higher purchases by India, the world's second-biggest consumer, could lend support to global prices that are trading near their highest level in a week.

Of all the new coal generation expected to go online over the next decade, Chinese companies will build nearly half of it.

India's recent restrictions on the industry and increased smuggling took the sheen off the bullion market heading into the peak festival season.

Freeport agreed in August to divest a 51% stake in Grasberg to local interests in return for full operational control until 2041 plus fiscal and legal guarantees, but a final deal has still to be reached.

The ban took effect from Sunday and restricts most companies and individuals from selling, transporting or burning coal in the urban area of Taiyuan.

Plans to reopen one of the world's biggest copper mines, shut by a civil war on the Pacific Island of Bougainville in 1989, have run into trouble.

The graphite market has shown its first sign of life in a few years with some upward price pressure.