China iron ore imports dip in April on shipping disruptions

The Ellendale mine produced around half of the world’s supply of rare yellow diamonds during peak production.

The $280-million deal gives POSCO a package of mining tenements for 17,500 hectares of land in the northern area of the Salar del Hombre Muerto salt flat in Argentina.

Rising costs, falling metals prices may eat into margins.

But the world's second largest producer said they will remain higher than the average reached last year.

The risk of blackouts in Australia's upcoming summer has grown from last year as ageing coal-fired power plants have become less reliable.

Australia's South32 Ltd posted a 16 percent rise in its annual underlying earnings, as healthy demand for manganese and alumina helped offset tepid output at its Illawarra coal project.

The problem for Australia is that this isn't something being imagined, it's the reality of a country that can't find political and social consensus on climate politics and the role of its vast reserves of coal, natural gas and even uranium.

Bullion production grew for nine consecutive years to reach an all-time high in 2017.

Advancing a nickel-copper-PGE sulphide deposits and gold in Western Australia.