MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

Down more than 6% Friday as realities of Japanese reactor restarts make an impact.

The gold market dwarves turnover on the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 combined, German and UK government bonds and even some of the top currency pairs.

The Hohe See wind park, to be located in the North Sea, has a planned capacity of about 500 megawatts.

Rebuttal comes as shareholders launched an investigation over possible false and misleading statements made by the miner about its Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska.

Shares in Seabridge Gold jumps after Toronto company adds 3m ounces gold and 2.1bn pounds copper resources at its KSM project in northern British Columbia.

Zinc was the second-best performing commodity in 2016, with a staggering 65.7% return.

The company is focusing on assets with the potential to add as much as 1.1 million ounces of gold to its total output beyond 2021.

The firm, North America's No.1 producer of coking coal, benefitted from the price rally — steelmaking coal climbed 155.5% to $207 in the quarter.

Restrictions would remain in place for six months, with some mines and areas possibly excluded.