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BHP Billiton back into the black, pays higher-than-expected dividend

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.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 21, 2017 | 3:10 am

Potash demand destruction likely in India, after Gov’t hints at subsidy cut

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.

Andrew Topf | February 20, 2017 | 1:02 pm

Copper price turns higher again – Grasberg gashed

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

Frik Els | February 20, 2017 | 12:51 pm

China leading the charge for lithium-ion megafactories

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.

Jeff Desjardins - Visual Capitalist | February 20, 2017 | 11:36 am

North Korea lights fire under coking coal price

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

Frik Els | February 20, 2017 | 10:51 am

China won’t buy any more North Korean coal this year

The economic noose is being tightened around North Korea's neck after the pariah regime ignored a United Nations resolution by testing a missile last week.

Andrew Topf | February 19, 2017 | 5:29 pm

Gold gets a shot in the arm from inflation and China

The question I have is: Why would an investor deliberately choose to lose money? But that’s precisely what’s happening now with inflation where it is.

Frank Holmes - U.S. Global Investors | February 19, 2017 | 2:51 pm