Turquoise Hill considers gold streaming, debt funding for Oyu Tolgoi

A surge in commodity prices combined with its multibillion-dollar asset fire-sale has put the company in a position to pay big dividends and explore acquisitions.

The world's No.1 heavy machinery maker is telling miners not to rest on their laurels now that the industry is finally coming back up from a brutal downturn and keep focused on maximizing returns and efficiency.

Up 7% year on year across all regions, supporting rally in iron ore and rebound in coking coal prices.

BHP Billiton still sees potash as a key commodity in which to base its future growth despite prices for the fertilizer remain weak.

Net profit was $3.2bn for the six months to December 31, compared with a loss of $5.7bn in the same period a year earlier.

Already reeling from decades-low prices, potash miners are staring at another headwind, this time from India, a major importer of the crop fertilizer ingredient.

Top listed copper producer Freeport says negotiations with Indonesia going nowhere – will slash production at iconic mine by 60%.

As exciting as Tesla's Gigafactory 1 project is, it’s actually just one of multiple large-scale “megafactories” being built – with many of them being in China.

The totalitarian state is the number three supplier to China of the steelmaking raw material.