Lead, the bull market no-one wants to buy into

The island nation will look to secure a steady supply of African natural gas, oil and rare earth metals.

Officials were tipped off.

"Some 10 million weddings take place every year in China."

For most investors, the market for gold and silver stocks resembles a battlefield littered with the dead and dying, especially after the last day or two.

The pros and cons of extraction from the seabed.

"Rio and its partners have invested $6.5 billion in the first phase of the project."

Expansion plans should lift BHP's Australian iron ore capacity to 220m tonnes a year.

"If gold bounces $100 from here - which is not that hard to see - then gold stocks will have a big run."

An important emerging source of the world’s iron.