Column: China may solve the LME’s Russian copper problem. But at a price

Beijing may dump state metal stocks on overheating markets and is cracking down on speculation as producer inflation hits 12-year high.

Vale is considering the use of remote-controlled trains near the Xingu dam for the flow of its production.

A forthcoming industrial disruption is inevitable for the US and global steel sector.

The coal sector must improve mechanisms to store supply and speed up construction of reserve capacity, an official says.

Chinese port stocks drop to four month low while Brazilian exports remain far off guidance.

China's major copper smelters reduced output by 4.34% in May from a month earlier to 765,100 tonnes as several of them carried out maintenance.

The world's biggest producer of aluminum rarely sells state metal stockpiles.

An iron mine in Shanxi was flooded on Thursday and trapped 13 miners.

The company in March announced an ambitious plan to increase its production capacity roughly fivefold to 600,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent a year.