China's export growth beat forecasts, helped by booming global demand ahead of the winter holiday season.

Aluminum is heading toward a bear market as China’s efforts to boost power output from fossil fuels set the stage for an easing of industrial curbs.

A wide swathe of China has suffered outages since May as soaring prices and tight supply of coal.

Supplies of coal, the key source of electricity generation in China and India, are beginning to rise again after governments pressed miners to boost output.

"We expect iron ore prices to find a floor around current levels," says ANZ Research.

TALCO gold plans to produce up to 21,000 tonnes of antimony and 2.5 tonnes of gold per year.

A British magnet factory could be built by 2024 and eventually produce 2,000 tonnes a year of rare earth magnets, enough to supply about 1 million EVs.