World Gold Council expects metal demand, prices to stay strong

The Gedabek mine expects to exceed its target to produce 595 tonnes of copper for 2014.

Foreign direct investment in the central Asian country dropped 50% last year.

Copper has gained an increasingly important role in Glencore Xstrata's portfolio since last year’s mega merger.

Nickel prices are up by almost a third since the start of the year. That looks premature at best and, at worst, overdone says new report.

A govt clampdown saw Indian imports of gold bars almost halve, but the diamond trade is robust with rough imports up 24% and polished exports jumping 31%.

In light of the Indonesian mineral ore ban that came into force on January 12th 2014, Wood Mackenzie says the aluminium industry - particularly in China - faces a challenge to address a growing shortage of the raw material bauxite, an aluminium ore.

On October 30, 2013, Stans Energy Corp., a Toronto-based firm focusing on heavy rare earth metals, and its subsidiaries filed a claim for arbitration under the Convention for the Protection of Investor’s Rights to which Kyrgyzstan is a signatory.

Company claims comment was part of a requirement for the application to the National Energy Board.

New study based on purchasing power parity sees Chinese economy overtaking US this year. India leaps from 10th to 3rd.