China Top Stories

Europe aims to revive magnesium output by 2025 to cut China reliance

Supplies from China fell late last year, igniting prices in Europe and focusing the EU on efforts to secure home-grown supplies.

Reuters | May 20, 2022 | 6:33 am

Chinese lockdowns dragging aluminum prices down, no respite before H2 — report

Fitch notes strong downside risks as strict Chinese lockdowns pose…

Staff Writer | May 19, 2022 | 1:24 pm

Copper price rebounds as China eases covid restrictions

“Sentiment had been buoyed by hopes that China is making…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | May 19, 2022 | 9:25 am

Copper price down on bets of big US rate hikes

Fed Jerome Powell pledged that the US central bank would ratchet interest…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | May 18, 2022 | 9:20 am

China CNGR expands nickel investments in Indonesia to meet EV demand

CNGR Advanced Material will invest in three new projects in…

Reuters | May 18, 2022 | 9:06 am

China’s booming copper imports an echo of the last crisis

Every copper trader knows Beijing's stockpiling was a big part of the copper price rally from 2009 lows below $3,000/tonne to over $10,000 two years later.

Reuters | August 13, 2020 | 7:19 am

Shandong Gold calls on Canada to approve Arctic mine buy

The Chinese gold giant says its acquisition of TMAC Resources, which owns the massive Hope Bay property in Nunavut, should be approved for economic reasons.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 13, 2020 | 3:53 am

Huayou temporarily suspends cobalt purchases from two Congo mines

Under pressure from human rights groups, China's biggest cobalt refiner has decided to temporarily stop sourcing from artisanal mines.

Reuters | August 12, 2020 | 2:17 pm

The world’s changing nuclear reactor landscape

Using data from the Power Reactor Information System, Visual Capitalist maps out where nuclear reactors are subsiding and where future capacity will reside.

Visual Capitalist | August 11, 2020 | 2:17 pm

Gold price plummets more than $90

Gold price falls 4.5% in one of the biggest one-day declines in gold market history.

MINING.com Editor | August 11, 2020 | 8:57 am

China’s steel body expects iron ore port congestion to ease by end of August

The China Iron and Steel Association said that discharging difficulties are likely to ease as the weather improves and the coronavirus is under control.

Reuters | August 11, 2020 | 8:42 am