Details captured in European Space Agency satellite data show the plume about 90 kilometers (56 miles) east of Shanxi’s capital Taiyuan, in Yangquan City.

China will have to cut steel output by more than 50 million tonnes in the final six months of 2021 to meet its carbon emissions targets.

China's Wuxi Stainless Steel Exchange said trading in its new lithium contract would begin next week.

For the first time since the pre-crisis years before 2008, the commodities boom means central banks are fretting about inflation.

Global gold mine production will grow at the fastest rate in three years in 2021.

China is pausing industrial activity to clear air pollution ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s 100th anniversary celebration later this week.

China curbs and expectations of sooner-than-anticipated policy tightening in the United States have pressured prices.

In Shanxi, the country’s biggest coal producing province, 128 of the fossil fuel mines accounting for nearly a quarter of the region’s capacity have suspended operation.