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China’s consumer prices rose at the slowest pace in more than two years in April.

Key industrial users of the fuel including steel mills and cement plants are demanding more discounts on coal purchases to help cover losses.

Mysteel reported that six steel mills in North China's Shanxi province will resume production in the coming two weeks amid improved margins.

Copper usage appears to be growing faster than previously forecasted, while mine supply is yet again failing to live up to expectations.

Official trade data shows exports worth A$60.5 million ($41.04 million) of copper ore and concentrate to China in January.

China's imports of iron ore rose 5.1% in April from the same period the previous year.

Imports of unwrought copper and copper products totaled 407,294 tonnes in April.

Measures follow an accident in late February at an open-pit coal mine that killed at least five and left 48 people missing.

One of Canada’s most successful mining prospectors finds a good chunk of his claims hemmed in on all sides by China Metallurgical Exploration Corp.